Posted by Chip on October 3, 2011
We need many villages …
Yes, it will take many “villages” to move us beyond the constraints and narrow definitions of achievement and success currently assigned to American educational policies and mandated practices in our classrooms and schools.
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Tags: achievement gap, Courage to Teach, Education Reform, Educators for Social Responsibility, No Child Left Behind, Open Circle, Parker Palmer, Responsive Classroom approach, schools and democracy, Second Step, test scores, whole child, whole school, whole teacher |
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Posted by Chip on January 8, 2010
If you work in the field of education, you may share the same troubling mental image I have as we enter the new decade and ponder the future of our children.
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Tags: achievement gap, Arne Duncan, Great Society, improving education, Race to the Top, U.S. education policy, Whitney Young, Yong Zhao |
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