There is an ongoing narrative concerning public education in this country. Our students are failing and falling further and further behind the rest of the world despite years of educational initiatives and reforms that have pumped billions of dollars into our public schools. Programs such as No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and the Every Student Succeeds Act were implemented to increase student achievement so that we can maintain economic and military hegemony across th

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”― John Dewey, Democracy and Education Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED talk, Do schools kill creativity?, with almost 20 million views, is one of the most-watched TED talks on YouTube. In it, Robinson argues that American public schools squander children’s remarkable talen