Joanne Jacobs

Alexander Russo of This Week in Education has come up with seven outrageous predictions for education change in 2008 on Britannica Blog. Number 3 is especially unlikely.

Thanks to a new 12-step program created by the Poynter Institute (and a powerful new form of crystal meth), education reporters and newspapers will free themselves from annoying human-interest anecdotes tacked onto the start of their articles, stories based almost entirely on classroom teachers’ complaints, and — through a special Knight Foundation-funded 28-day residential program — kick their addiction to the phrase “left behind.”

I’m confident no human-interest anecdote will be left behind.