Recently, I turned 60 years old (also expressed as 720 months, or 21,915 days, or 525,960 hours, or 31,557,600 minutes), and over that time I’ve seen many great debates in the education policy arena. Often those debates reach equilibrium with a realization of what Jim Collins (author of Built to Last and Good to Great) calls “the genius of the AND.” Collins points out that successful businesses realize that there is validity in each of diametrically different points of view, and the most successful companies respect and leverage both—especially when there is no clear right or wrong.
