“In the midst of all of the hype and rhetoric that fills the public discourse on school reform, Paula Lawrence-Wehmiller's singular voice resonates with sanity and wisdom. In her work with school communities, Wehmiller offers a refreshing and welcome counterpoint to the cacophony of chronic laments about the sorry state of today's educational system as she challenges the assumptions under girding our public preoccupations and policies and wrestles with the construction of our arguments on "the achievement gap," on standards and standardization, on accountability and assessment, and on high stakes testing. In so doing, she offers an alternative view, a wise and generous perspective, a way of seeing that unmasks the prejudices that bind and blind us, and always a stance that supports the people on the front lines-students, parents, and teachers.”
- Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education Harvard University prize-winning author ofThe Good High SchoolandThe Essential Conversation
