By: Rick Hess, Education Week
Education is filled with talk of u201cinnovation.u201d The term gets indiscriminately attached to whatever school model, professional-development strategy, or community program is being pushed at the moment. This endless search for the new new thing tends to squeeze out attention to the more practical dimensions of u201ceducational innovation”u2014such as why sensible efforts to solve important problems so often struggle to gain traction.