This is a collection of adults and children's messages that challenge public school to become something more than it is - messages that dare public school to serve students' passions instead of politicians and vendors' coffers.
So many of the divisions and false notions of social order we cling to as adults are entrenched in the culture of public education. We want to take our next step in challenging that culture, and we ask for your help in helping us capture and share counter-narratives to today's test-addled, pop notions of schooling.

2nd November 2011

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I occupy education by cautioning parents about the dangers of a standardized, data, not passion, driven agenda in our schools. I do this by speaking and writing about ways to fix schools, not children as well as providing information about how to take ownership of learning and how to opt out of school for succes. You can read more about this…On my blog at http://TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.comIn my guides at http://www.scribd.com/lisa_nielsen/shelf

I occupy education by cautioning parents about the dangers of a standardized, data, not passion, driven agenda in our schools.

I do this by speaking and writing about ways to fix schools, not children as well as providing information about how to take ownership of learning and how to opt out of school for succes.

You can read more about this…
On my blog at http://TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com
In my guides at http://www.scribd.com/lisa_nielsen/shelf

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