Yesterday the state superintendent of schools, for whom I voted at some point in the past, unveiled the latest breathtaking testing regimen for California public schools. Rather than inveigh against the various features of this latest proposal, many of which are as expensive as they are hazy, I submit a modest request: Let us have a moratorium on educational reform by politicians of both parties. Just leave the schools alone for a decade. Feel free to get rid of some mandates and some tests, but otherwise, just restrain that reformer impulse and leave things be. Please.
