Educators have their hands tied. We&#x27;ve centralized everything, and the central bureaucracy has decided it doesn&#x27;t matter how innovative educators can be because the central bureaucracy already knows everything about the best way to teach, and if you deviate from it, you&#x27;re fired. (A couple of intermediate steps through failing test scores and the consequences, but that&#x27;s the effect.)<p>Until the educators get the central bureaucracy off their backs, it doesn&#x27;t matter what they are capable of.<p>If you&#x27;d like to read my point as being that the central bureaucracy is &quot;the most entrenched, hidebound, nearsighted, and even perhaps <i>terrified of real change</i>&quot; part of the system, I&#x27;m perfectly comfortable with that.