Cloaking Inequity: Does High-Stakes Testing & Accountability = Social Justice & Civil Rights?
So my challenge to you today is to think about how we grow and access the capacity of local stakeholders including students, teachers, administrators, parents, educators, the faith community, business leaders and others to engage in a spectrum of reforms that are currently being pushed toward private control.
Of, course this work isn’t easy, as some recent evaluations of local accountability plans and processes have suggested. It’s a paradigm shift away from a decade of top-down reform.
But, we must act to change the public conversation about the successes and failures of our schools.
This approach is not anti-education “reform” but instead presents an alternative to top-down, privately controlled policy.
In conclusion, community-based reform and policy changes the conversation from educators and local stakeholders as the “problem” by instead re-empowering them as the solution and strengthening the thread that links communities to vibrant, participatory neighborhood public schools.
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