From a story at Education Week - Author is Charles Taylor Kerchner Editors Note: Although this article is about California schools ask yourself if it really sounds like your state This spring, I had a delightful lunch with Michael Kirst, the Stanford University professor emeritus, who as president of the State School board has been profiled as leading a radical revolution in California education.  He and I have known each other as academics for decades, and we spent a little time at lunch figuring out how to best fit our conversation into the roles we now occupy: Kirst as a public official, and me as a journalist.  We decided that we could speculate about ideas, but not about … [Read more...]