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“But the problem with the marketplaces that it dissolves communities and replaces them with consumers. Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.”

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Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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“Computers deliver an abundance of symbols yet offer an impoverishment of experience. Do our children need to see more icons, corporate logos, and glitzy fonts... or do they need more time climbing, running, and figuring out how to get along with each other?”

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Book:High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
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“I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ... Finally, I was able to gather enough knowledge to build the confidence to create my own work, that goes utterly against the sense of specialization.”

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Author:Nuno Roque
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“The End of Education as We Know It is both fierce and practical —a toolkit for creating regenerative schools from the ground up. Whether you’re a classroom teacher or an education policymaker, this book will equip you with methods and strategies to disrupt outdated assumptions, foster humanity in learning, and embrace the complexity of both children and the world they inhabit. This book is not about tepid tweaks and timid reforms. More boldly, Florez calls for an entirely new way of doing school, one that aligns with the demands of the world our kids will own.”

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Book:When Kids Rule the School: The Power and Promise of Democratic Education
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“Perhaps the greatest obstacle to systemic reform was that it required numerous stakeholders - textbook publishers, test publishers, schools of education, and so on - to change, which turned out to be an insurmountable political obstacle.”

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Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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“As computers replace textbooks, students will become more computer literate and more book illiterate. They'll be exploring virtual worlds, watching dancing triangles, downloading the latest web sites. But they won't be reading books.”

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Book:High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
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“The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one thing, stress much more that for most people in the past 13 years, the period was not one of collapse into chaos but actually one where the situation improved, and particularly in areas such as schools, hospitals and a variety of other cultural achievements—so the idea that somehow or other it all needs to be taken down and ground into the dust is not valid. I think we need to defend what most people think basically needs defending and that is the provision of some form of welfare from the cradle to the grave.”

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Author:Eric Hobsbawm
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“Very well. I’m confident Papa told you about our missed connection aboard the Grimm vessel.” “What’s a vessel?” Daphne asked. “The layman calls it a boat,” Pinocchio explained. “What’s a layman?” Daphne asked. “Oh dear. The schools in this town are failing the youth,” Pinocchio said.”

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Book:2018 The Sisters Grimm 9 Book Set & Bonus Journal!
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“Nor is it wise to entrust our schools to inexperienced teachers, principals, and superintendents. Education is too important to relinquish to the vagaries of the market and the good intentions of amateurs. American education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it is threatening to destroy public education. Who will stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?”

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Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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