Letters

To the editor:

It is bizarre that New York City's Community School District 2, where we both have served as superintendent, would be attacked in your Commentary section from both the left and the right at the same time ( "Two Views on Manhattan's District 2," Feb. 28, 2001). Is the district too progressive or too standardized? We think the answer is clearly neither.

Too much of educational discourse is colored by biases and ideologies. Both authors, Louisa C. Spencer and Lois Weiner, engage in sweeping judgments that ignore facts and the hard...