I ... followed a golden rule that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from memory than favorable ones. Owing to this habit, very few objections were raised against my views that I had not at least noticed and attempted to answer.
Charles Darwin, 1958, quoted in Wiggins and McTighe's "Understanding By Design," 2005 p. 96.
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While I listened to you and my husband discuss politics I was trying to remember the title of the book about the education system I've been reading. It's called The Death and Life of the American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch. She worked under both Bush (H.W.) and Clinton. I haven't gotten very far so I can't really give you a review, but her background includes studying the history of America's public schools, so maybe up your alley?
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