Dr. Greg Stratman, a forty-year veteran of education, with experience from kindergarten to college, shares his perspectives and experiences on the state of education -- its strengths, its woes, its fads, its misplays, its misfocus, and its reality. Today's schools, from K-college, are focused less on education and more on job preparation, with administrators who increasingly make decisions based not on academic effectiveness but on convenience, cost, and retention.