To improve education in America, look beyond the traditional school model

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/05/08/to-improve-education-in-america-look-beyond-the-traditional-school-model/

These three visions for public education generate conflicts that are politically charged, and carry high stakes in terms of legitimacy and financial support.

But these conflicts operate within the same conceptual framework: Public education is the neighborhood school, and all alternatives must be justified against it—if they are to be supported at all. The result is entrenched competition between entire school sectors, such as charter versus district, public versus private.

As I argue in a recent book, “Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School,” it is time to consider not only whether some departures from uniformity should be allowed, but also whether uniformity comports with democratic principles in the first place. “No One Way to School” investigates political philosophy, constitutional history, cultural theory, and academic and civic outcomes in depth. Some highlights follow.

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No One Way to School

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137502230

Delivers a timely roadmap for American policymakers who are looking for a way to navigate choice, accountability, and equity in education amid a new administration

Presents the case for a powerful and novel choice-driven alternative to the current structure of public education that is neither libertarian nor state-focused

Explores different approaches to the structure of public education and their impact

Examines the historical context behind the United States' adaptation of a uniform public school system

Provides examples of major changes in educational philosophies and structures, and locates them within different theories of social change

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Citizenship formation includes specific knowledge (How does the government work?), specific skills (How do I write my Congressperson?), attachment and participation (Why is this country/state/city worth participating in?), and tolerance (How can we respectfully disagree?). Cultivating the above requires a robust academic program and the possibility of classroom debate. Yet many of our schools – public and private – undervalue the content and skills required to engage in the democratic process. Do schools insist that all students know the basic tenets of the Constitution? Or understand the separation of powers? Or can name the capital of every state? What about actually learning a foreign language and knowing world geography inside out? Our public schools don’t even come close, and plenty of non-public schools undervalue rigorous content.

A second reason may be that many schools struggle to articulate the why’s for students, a point that James Davison Hunter’s book, The Death of Character (2000) drives home. Citizenship requires duty to something greater than oneself. In schools with strong normative cultures, the “greater than” is simply more readily available than it in a supposedly neutral school. Scott Seider’s Character Compass (2012) takes us inside three Boston charter schools whose core commitments draw upon Aristotelian, Pacific Rim, and performance ethics, each of which shapes their respective traditions and rituals.

Educational pluralism simply foregrounds the role that values and commitments play in school culture. The structure of educational pluralism does not solve the problem of citizenship formation by itself. It does, however, create space for schools that are organized around explicit normative claims. And in general, non-public schools provide richer academic content than do district schools. Put these two factors together, and the odds are that pluralizing the school system will yield better civic outcomes.

6 Ways the Next President Can Improve Education

Was this the Cabal's advice to President Hillary

For a framework that allowed them to LOCK all young Americans

Into lockstep with the NWO plans?

http://time.com/4545088/next-president-education/

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Q told us the plan

The detailled sequence is in the drops

You just have to read them

ALL OF THEM

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Small minds….

The Cabal loves you!