Why education cannot move forward.  We in education have been
stuck in a rut for a very very long time.  We are constantly
bombarded with educational fads that hold very little merit.  We
fall prey to entrepreneurs out to make a dollar. We are dazzled
with slick presentations by people who have never taught in a
classroom and for whatever reason we continually look to
textbook publishers for our curricula. So why is education so
prone to whim where other fields are able to resist?  One
possible explanation is that educators (teachers, professors,
researchers, etc) are unwilling or unable to claim a common
knowledge base.  Some say we need to be sharing our ideas and
resources more, but this sharing is not fruitful if we cannot
accept a common standard against which to judge ideas.  I’m not
saying all of education ought look the same, but education has
to find some set of knowledge on which to ground itself or we
are doomed to continue to fracture into unrecognizable bits with
little, if any, coherence.  If th