This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.
Adrift in a Sea of Troubles
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Notably absent from the Super 20 applications submitted to the Duval County
Public Schools was Scott Schneider, the current Chief of Schools for the
distri...
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