Thursday, July 21, 2011

Time to get off our knees and do more than just march « Cooperative Catalyst

Time to get off our knees and do more than just march « Cooperative Catalyst

Time to get off our knees and do more than just march

Jonathan Kozol was spot on. It is time for educators, parents, and young people to reclaim the “public” in public education and get off our knees. I’ve been enjoying reading his and teachers diaries about why they’ll march toSave Our Schools on July 30th in DC. I’ll be there too.

But I’m not going to DC for the march. I’m going for the messy work of organizing what comes after the march that will take place at the SOS Congress on July 31st at American University from 11am to 3pm EST.

We are right to make demands, to craft policy proposals, and to seek media attention. We need coherent narratives about the school to prison pipeline, the learning and teaching environments that grow curiosity, a


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