Five Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (and Ones That Will) Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública

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Five Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (and Ones That Will)

By Jeff Bryant, Campaign for America's Future Op-Ed

Wednesday, 31 July 2013-- truthout.org

The following is from a talk given at a meeting of the Young Elected Officials last week in Washington, D.C.

Thanks for having me here today. I'm feeling a little out of context at a meeting for the Young Elected Officials. And it's not because I'm not an elected official.

But I suppose there are some advantages and benefits to aging. Wisdom, however, is not one of them, as the demographics of Fox News bear out.

In aging you have experiences that you can reflect and act on over time and experiences that are unique to your generational cohort. For instance, how many of you have deep expertise in junk mail? That happens to be my