I have two links on the state of education today - I'll still be here when you're done reading them. My rant is mainly concerned with the second, but the first explains why there are less stellar teachers, so I decided to include it. (NYTimes registration required for the first). The theme that I see in these zero-tolerance policies is that it is easier to enact a one-size-fits-all policy than to think. And every one of the stupidities that result are because the administrators don't wa...