Innovation proposals aim to transform Michigan education Detroit Free Press Freep.com:
"It's an exciting time because we're breaking traditional wisdom with the approach we're taking. We're investing in our schools,' said Gibbons, president of the Oxford Education Association.
Oxford is among dozens of school districts across Michigan that submitted proposals to the Michigan Department of Education as part of its Project Reimagine, an initiative to get school leaders to rethink the way they educate kids.
The state will sift through the 70 proposals and choose up to 20 that would become what the department is calling demonstration districts -- so called because they will become models for reform in the state. It is crucial to reinvent the way students are taught because on just about every national measure of academic success, Michigan consistently ranks as average at a time when being OK isn't good enough to compete globally, many education experts say"
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-43092_52788---,00.html
"It's an exciting time because we're breaking traditional wisdom with the approach we're taking. We're investing in our schools,' said Gibbons, president of the Oxford Education Association.
Oxford is among dozens of school districts across Michigan that submitted proposals to the Michigan Department of Education as part of its Project Reimagine, an initiative to get school leaders to rethink the way they educate kids.
The state will sift through the 70 proposals and choose up to 20 that would become what the department is calling demonstration districts -- so called because they will become models for reform in the state. It is crucial to reinvent the way students are taught because on just about every national measure of academic success, Michigan consistently ranks as average at a time when being OK isn't good enough to compete globally, many education experts say"
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-43092_52788---,00.html
