Elliot Eisner — What Does It Mean to Say a School Is Doing Well?

This post is an essay by Elliot Eisner that was published in 2001 in Kappan.  Here's a link to a PDF of the original.  Elliot, my friend and colleague, died in 2014.  Here's a link to his obituary.  Elliot was one of the great academic champions for a richly humanistic view of education, the perfect …