Debate: Will public education survive the next century?

From: NEA Today | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

DR. BARBARA SMITH PALMER is an elected member of the United Teachers of Los Angeles House of Representatives and Political Action Committee, the California Teachers Association State Council, and a UTLA delegate to the NEA Representative Assembly.

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I'm excited about the prospects for teaching and learning in the 21st Century. But for public education to truly survive in the 21 st Century, we will need to make-some adjustments in our efforts at reform, in our philosophy, and in our teaching.

- Reform. How schools are structured has complicated our attempts at innovation. The relationship ...

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