The Skills

Deborah Meier wants to be "Data Informed," Not Data Driven" and she wins The Liberal Arts Hero of the Day Award, which comes with no prize money, just some modest adulation.

Why is she the winner? Well, in her latest letter to pen pal Diane Ravitch on the website of Education Week, Ms. Meier discusses the latest trend toward making sure our children are equipped with "21st Century Skills" and she says things I like, such as this:

Human beings are going to create the 21st Century, not “fit into it”—I hope. And it might have been a great thing if all children had learned so-called 21st Century skills in the 12th Century and the 19th...

Sweet.