Educational reality is too complex, too contentious and too elusive for that kind of overall, seemingly objective and authoritative judgment.
"There's a political reality, but there's also an educational reality," said Steven Sanders, a Manhattan Democrat who is chairman of the Assembly's Education Committee.
But with nearly 60percentt of students switching campuses on their way to a bachelor's degree, institutions are responding to the new educational reality.
It distinguishes three domains of knowledge: ideological, the domain of educational norms, values and objectives; empirical, the domain of connections between phenomena in educational reality; and technological, the domain of educational methods, techniques and strategies.
Behind this absurd jargon lies an educational reality that operates outside the confines of complex equations and algorithms: students here are unpredictable, evolving, and continually jostled by a myriad of internal and external influences.
After the university asserted that it was seeking a "critical mass" of minority students, but not a quota, Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey, an appointee of President Clinton, asked, "How do you know a critical mass when you see it?" Mr. Payton, the university lawyer, responded, "The answer is not a number, but an educational reality".
Finally, it found educational realities that address these two theories.
The revolutionaries tried to follow the U.S. model, but novel institutions clashed with those of the past; governmental practice did not follow political theory; and the legal equality of the citizens hardly corresponded to economic and educational realities.
Had it not been for their willingness to listen, excellent guidance, and insight into school and district policy as well as the nuances of educational realities, I would not have been the teacher I needed to be for my students, nor stayed in the field of education.
Casting a broad net that includes disability, learning differences, all 'races', language and the ubiquitous 'diverse', means that success at the level of individual schools can leave racial and economic educational realities of New York City schools in place while claiming they are now integrated.
The continental European education landscape is also different to the North American one — with generally greater access to higher education and at lower cost — which means iversity will be tweaking its business model to better tailor it to specifically European educational realities.
