Contained Vision/losing the spectrum

This is a reworking of an illustration I did for Education Week some years back for an opinion piece by Mike Rose, a U.C.L.A. professor who has had a long commitment to a philosophy of education with more depth and complexity than one that relies test scores or experts' theories that leave out real world experience. In particular, he feels that teachers themselves have been left out of the debate. Mike said in that essay:

We mistake narrowness for rigor, but actually we are not rigorous enough. To acknowledge our collective capacity is to take the concept of variability seriously. Not as a neat binary distinction or as slots along a simplified cognitive continuum, but as a bountiful and layered field, where many processes and domains of knowledge interact.

Mike's current post concerns the labeling involved in the preliminaries of selecting of Obama's Secretary of Education, and a plea for involving teachers in the formation of public policy for our schools. If you are interested in education, I hope you'll check it out.