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Across America, school change is beginning to happen, but can we wake up in time to save the future?

Read the ironic inside story that exposes how far we have to go to rescue ourselves, our kids, and the American Dream.

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Radical Reinvention, Please

Interviewers always ask Patti the question foremost in their minds:  How can her novel have an effect on an issue as big as school reform?  In the Interview with the Author that follows the story in the new 2009 edition of Angel Park, this is what she has to say:
            “My novel can help with the most important first step, opening readers’ eyes to a new way of thinking and providing a new perspective not only on school systems but also on how we live our lives.  This IS a big issue, and one of the most important we will face this century . . . . “
            After twenty-five years in the public school trenches, fighting for change in all aspects of education, Patti is convinced that we all need to see the bigger picture:  “We need radical reform in the way schools approach kids and the concept of learning,” she says.  “Raising test scores and throwing more money at the problem are futile attempts to disguise the underlying issues, which are huge and societal in their import.”   Once readers see the “Big Picture,” she says, they can understand the way many pieces of school reform fit together to create a new paradigm.
            “I wrote a fictional expose, an insider’s view of what really goes on in schools, to help readers feel the emotional drag that keeps kids, teachers, and parents fighting a battle every year.  I hope my story provides America’s wake-up call to the vast political-industrial complex we have created around a system that needs to be trimmed down, flattened out, simplified, and most critically, humanized to match our most beloved institution with our deepest ideals,” Patti says.

Receive a free download of Patti’s “Interview with the Author” and “Looking Deeper: A Reader’s Guide” on our Angel Park page.  Her original free report, “Exploding the Paradigm: Five Ways Schools Must Change to Rescue the American Dream,” can be downloaded from our Sign-Up/Contact page.

Join Patricia Kokinos in speaking out about the vast transformation we want to see in public education...

Find out more about Patti and her life’s work as a change agent on our Author Bio page. Discover new ideas on our Speaking Out page, which highlights Patti’s vision for deep and lasting change.  Check out our Global View page to see how forward-thinking nations and global movements are already acting on the knowledge that children ARE the future and, indeed, Changing the Schools Can Change the World...

Patricia Kokinos (say ko-keen’-us)
Author, Speaker, ChangeMaker

	*** Latest News *** See ANGEL PARK in a whole new venue, the new Books for Film site, developed by a screenwriter as an innovative Ning network, which are spreading like wildfire across the net. Nothing could capture the public’s imagination better and inform them about the real issues in schools than a film that tells the inside story, so if you know Spike Lee, send him the book and we can all “do the right thing”! Patti is experimenting with a new approach to her newsletter, expanding it into a bimonthly ezine with all original content, along with links to current press on school change. Check out two of her ezine issues, Quantum Change: A Time for Visionaries and From Testing to Imagination: A New Vision for Schools and let her know what you think via Patti@ChangeTheSchools.com. Here’s the latest award for ANGEL PARK, a finalist for Best Book of the Year in Literary Fiction from USA Book News. See more awards and acclaim on our Angel Park page.