the baseball metaphor

Perhaps schools must lower standards, raise expectations, and accept the fact that human children are not all the same.

Taylor, Michigan won the 2021 Little League World Series — Getty Images

Lower Our Standards. No, not something you hear often in education writings, but it is August when we can watch televised baseball (and softball) at every age level. It’s the month when the major leagues hold both their “Field of Dreams” Game in Dyersville, Iowa, and the Little League World Series Game in…