14th century France inhabited a relatively simple personal world with maybe three sides: farm, village, and the church. Today ordinary individuals construct amazingly complex personal worlds with many facets. The game has truly changed.
"elephant in the room," a big conspicuous but largely undiscussed problem: What should we do with tired content?
If only we could shrink some topics, we could expand others that offer much more.
the elephant fights back! The gridlock of textbooks, testing, college admissions standards, and more makes forthrightly shelving traditional topics politically and practically perilous.