Introduction to Talking Out At School
April 14, 2020
We traveled the nation, bringing together parents and teachers for honest conversations about education. The conversations were telling. They told the story of an education system that was built many decades ago in the model of a factory, with the goal of producing factory workers. They told the story of top-down solutions whose effectiveness is measured by ever-increasing tests. They told the story of an American education system that needs something more than incremental reform… it needs a revolution. https://www.youtube.com/embed/aUBD7t3pJZk But, more than any of that, they told the story of unity. Parents and teachers united to confront the hobbled…