Why We Need Schools To Uplift Their Communities Now More Than Ever | Education on GOOD

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Why We Need Schools To Uplift Their Communities Now More Than Ever

As Helen Keller said, "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
That's why on Wednesday, when Chicago Public Schools decided to shut down 50 public schools, along with either combining or putting others in a turnaround model, even the casual observer could see the absolute failure of our current public education system and its wayward reforms.
Closing 10 percent of the Chicago Public Schools' entire school system is no small feat. True, some schools don't do the best job possible for all children, but closing a tenth of schools signals a deep-rooted symptom of a system whose leaders refuse to do anything besides stick toilet paper-thin Band-Aid reforms on the problems. Instead of duplicating schools like the lauded University of Chicago Laboratory School—created by famed