Help us spread the word that there is a better way of approaching “school reform” than struggling with test scores or putting more money into a crumbling structure. Join our campaign to promote a new vision for America’s schools:
To give you an idea about where we’re going, here are a few choice words from Patti’s articles and interviews that pick up where Angel Park left off:
“Whether school boards, nonprofits, or mayors run the system, it is still ‘the system,’ impervious to our efforts, deaf to our pleas for ‘real change.”
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“We are still operating the kinds of schools that the early 20th century devised to implement mass education, the assembly-line factory-style schools where kids flow in and out of classrooms right on schedule, have information attached to them, and are shunted on to the next station.”
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“How can we complain about the superficiality of popular culture when we have created it by allowing a school culture of multiple-choice and yes/no answers?”
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“Why not have charter districts, where the rules are lifted for two years while reorganization, downsizing of the administrative hierarchy, and reinvestment of resources into smaller, more personalized, and more collaborative environments for all kids and teachers takes place?”
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“Those of us in education used to talk timidly of a ‘paradigm shift’ as a way of meeting the needs of a new generation of students ... Now it’s going to take a great explosion of our current paradigm ... to move public education forward.” |
