Mediocrity: Deplorable, Yes. Until We Consider the Alternative

Batten down the hatches! The governors have come back from last year's National High School Summit and are actually proposing fixes for the nation's high schools. (See Education Week, Feb. 8. 2006.) Those efforts generally fall into three categories: forming commissions, improving the collection of data, and the hands-down favorite, changing high school core curricula and/or graduation requirements to more closely align with four-year public colleges' entrance requirements.