From the Academy

The Education-Workshop Boondoggle

Recently a Michigan superintendent of schools sent me some correspondence and leaflets on educational workshops and conferences in this state.1 “I have attended these things before,” he writes. “Nothing ever results except a pain for having gone. At a time when there is no money to pay our teachers and we have to borrow, the top brass fills the air with workshops, conferences, and retreats which never even approach the problems at hand.”