History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
School reform is a dead end, unless...
- 06-14-2011
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Blog by James Gee/Huffington Post
We all say we want to reform our schools. But, to my mind, school reform is a pretty irrelevant topic. We live in a "developed society" (though one whose distribution of wealth is "third world"). In such a society, the vast majority of jobs are in poorly paid service work. With the erosion of unions, even jobs that once paid good wages and benefits do so no longer. And most jobs that require "standard skills", but not much face to face contact (whether high status jobs like engineering or low status ones like call center operators), are gravitating overseas to low cost centers. It gets ever harder for most people to find a sense of worth and dignity, and a feeling of control and participation in society, "on market" through their work. (more...)
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