back to the future

Still working around the clock; still off email -- hope to be back tomorrow -- !

In the meantime, here is today's nugget:

The revival of the progressive notion that inquiry, discovery, and ‘higher order’ thinking skills should guide instruction emerged from many sources in the 1950s and 1960s. Arthur Bestor’s call for the restoration of the liberal arts and higher standards for everyone had horrified most professors of education.

America's Public Schools: From the Common School to No Child Left Behind
by William J. Reese