People call me brave for saying what I say about education out loud. I'm not brave, I'm just the only one in the room who can say it. This episode is for the educators who already know the truth and have been deciding, for very rational reasons, not to say it.

This episode draws in part on research in:

• Organizational silence in hierarchical institutions — Milliken, Morrison & Hewlin (2003)
• Conservatism and professional risk in teaching cultures — Lortie (1975)
• Implementation gap between practitioner knowledge and institutional permission — Fullan (2001); Elmore (2004)
• Institutional construction of official student records — Mehan (1993)
• Multi-directional teacher accountability and its costs — Leithwood et al. (2006)