What I Learned | Vegas Seven

When we attempt to prepare our kids for the world, we have to learn not to exclude the world, in all its bewildering openness, from the conversation. After all, you never know what it might have to say. So it’s somehow fitting that when I sat down to write this Vegas Seven essay about the age of standardized testing, I wound up wandering off target and musing on my own dreamier days in the wild-blue classroom.