"It's All Talk"

[The big thinkers who spoke] were inspiring, thoughtful, forward-thinking, and presented a challenging but realistic vision of where we should be taking education. And nothing changed as a result.
--
Tim Stahmer

(source: Tim's AssortedStuff blog)

Change is Hard: Reading Scores are Flatlining

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same).
--
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) 

The man had a point. And it's probably that philosophy which encouraged him to give up on that whole shaving thing.

"Shave? What, so it can grow right back?" (image source)

I ran across the image below while reading an article called "Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: Learning from Florida’s Reforms" by Matthew Ladner.

Click to enlarge.

We're spending more. We're lowering the student-teacher ratio. 

What now?