City schools tour aims to spur democratic education elsewhere
iSchool students taking part in a Model United Nations class that the IDEA tour visited
Ammerah Saidi, a program coordinator with Detroit Future Schools, meandered in and out of classrooms in the iSchool one morning last week. She had her pick of classes to observe – classes such as “Sixteen,” a course designed around the question of what it means to be 16 in New York City, and Cartography, where students creatively mapped their hearts and fictional worlds.
Saidi was one of nearly 30 educators, advocates, and consultants from across the country and world taking part
