Sign This Declaration For A Positive New Direction For American Education
by Jeff Bryant
The growing revolution against top-down education mandates based on high-stakes testing and standardization has been building over the months into a widespreadEducation Spring.
Every revolution needs a declaration calling for a positive, new way forward.
This week, the Education Opportunity Network, the Institute for America’s Future and the Opportunity to Learn campaign released such a declaration.
Please sign the Education Declaration and share it to show your commitment to an education our children deserve.
In this video, I explain what’s behind the declaration and what we hope to accomplish.
An Education Declaration to Rebuild America is necessary because current policies are blatantly harmful to school children, families, and their communities.
In Seattle, Chicago, Texas, Philadelphia, Newark and New York – teachers, parents, school children, and public school advocates are speaking out in spontaneous and organized protest of education mandates.
These flashpoints of resistance are driven by common grievances. Teachers, students, and parents believe their schools are being deprived of the resources that are necessary to give students a quality education. They see that even the resources that are provided are very unfairly and inequitably spread. And they object to increasingly being disempowered and not having a voice in how their schools are governed.
The Education Declaration to Rebuild America addresses those grievances by calling for significant new investments – particularly in early childhood education, personal learning plans for K-12 students, and supports to address the out-of-school factors that influence learning.
The declaration appeals for new funding and resources to be more fairly and equitably
