"Principles for reclaiming public education"

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"Principles for reclaiming public education" - a site I found

http://www.reclaimpublicednow.org/

From what I can tell this is a movement of educators, admins, parents and students who want to turn public education into a more localized, student-centric institution free of corporate influence and onerous top-down standardized testing with enough funding to actually teach a variety of subjects.

It looks like a step in the right direction to me, but I'm not sure how much this will affect the students' overall lot. Will public education actually become more relevant and less mind-numbing? I remember someone saying something in another thread I made about how these sort of movements, while good overall, are not exactly student-centric. If we're going to actually do anything as a group, we should probably add our voice to an effort like this to start.

12-07-2013 04:28 PM

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"Principles for reclaiming public education" - a site I found - Trar - 12-07-2013 04:28 PM

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