A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. Number 2 Pencil has discovered some recommendations from the K-12 Committee of the National Association of Scholars (this makes sense: our efforts can be only as succesful as our students' attitudes and preparations, many of which are set in high school) on the high school to come. The recommendations are remarkably clear and free of the usual word-noise that passes as educational "theory" these days. There is a lot of work to be done.

The typical comprehensive American high school serves no group of students well today—its highest performing students, its so-called average students, nor its low-performing students.

Read the whole thing.