While I'm no friend of Gates & Co, Thomas Friedman makes an interesting point in today's column reporting that Bill Gates thinks American High Schools fail to prepare kids for the digital future. No surprise there. But I can't help thinking that good experiments continue to be overlooked ... and then repeated in a vaccuum ... without being recorded and scrutinized. With no possibility of being reflectively reproduced or tested. Perhaps half this mesage is also in response to Richard Haswell's article in Written Communication April 2005, "NCTE/CCCC's Recent War on Scholarship." This is a link to the abstract, and you can download the article if your library is subscribed.

I've been an avid reader of Friedman's columns in the NYT ever since Lubbock -- Kemp recommended I read Lexus and the Olive Tree and I can't wait to make some time to get through his new book.