Letters

To the Editor:

Your recent essayist Daniel Wolff ( "Edu- Speak," Commentary, May 1, 2002) is clearly a committed and knowledgeable parent who has spent enough time involved in education reform to be familiar with the terrain. As an educator, I admire the efforts of his New York parents' group, Nyack Partners in Education, to force schools to address some of the important issues he mentions.

Mr. Wolff has also done a service for us in pointing out one of the great tragedies of the so-called education reform movement. He speaks eloquently of a basic distrust of the very people best equipped to reform education (if reform is truly...