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“The Classroom is Obsolete: It’s time for something new”

Summary: In this short and powerful piece, architect and school designer Prakash Nair outlines the a vision of learning spaces designed for the twenty-first century. Rather than continuing with the out-dated classrooms and... Read on...

Brain Facts: Learning, Memory, and Language

Summary: A short and helpful primer on how the brain develops and learns. This is the basis for the broad research into neuroscience and it's implications for educational practice. Educators and researchers ought to understand... Read on...

Bronx Students Release 10-Point List of Demands to Reform NY Public Ed

Summary: Dubbing themselves The Resistance, a group of Bronx students have decided to “Occupy” public education, releasing a 10 point plan for reforming New York City's public school system. Some of their demands include "a... Read on...

Can Teachers Run Their Own Schools?

Summary: Through a case study of Avalon High School in Minnesota, this article explores the notion of democratic teacher-run schools where teachers collaboratively make school decisions rather than a single principal. Also... Read on...

CIrcles of Change

Summary: Lending circles, self-help groups, and study circles are all examples of one of the oldest and most effective tools for creating personal and social change. Leveraging the potential of Circles requires a clear... Read on...

Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline (book)

Summary: This new volume from the Harvard Educational Review features essays from scholars, educators, students, and community activists who are working to disrupt, reverse, and redirect the pipeline. Alongside these authors are... Read on...

Education Is About Preparing Youth To Make The World Better Than It Is

Summary: Pedro Noguera's speech, Education Is About Preparing Young People To Make The World Better Than It Is, at Morningside Center's Courageous Schools Conference

Education Votes

Summary: Education Votes is a community of activists committed to advancing education policies focused on building great public schools and benefiting all students. Started by the National Education Association, the site offers... Read on...

Educational Colonialism by Chris Lehmann

Summary: In this Huffinton Post article, Chris Lehmann, founding Principal of Science Leadership Academy, says that when powerful people ensure arts-enriched learning for their own kids but push for rote memorization for other... Read on...

Framing Education Reform: A FrameWorks Message Memo

Summary: This powerful article is a must-read for those working for educational change, describing how the language and messages we use impact our ability to build the will for change. The article explains traps and gaps in how... Read on...

How To Return Them To School?

Summary: This article highlights Nuestra Escuela (Our School), a school in Puerto Rico that helps support and guide dropouts to earn their high-school diplomas by focusing on students' self-esteem, motivation, and overall best... Read on...

Innovative Standards-based Graduation Models

Summary: Below is a compilation of resources of documents and a few schools & school models that use powerful innovative approaches to meeting standards through a combination of proficiency-based approaches and performance... Read on...

Invigorating Innovation in Education

Summary: This essay illustrates several examples of innovation in teaching practices in different fields.

Involving Students in Governance

Summary: An introduction to what, why, and how to involve students in governance at the school, district, and state levels, including recommendations for educators and policy-makers.

Let Kids Rule The School

Summary: In this New York Times article, Susan Engel writes about eight public high school students, aged 15 to 17, in western Massachusetts that designed and ran their own school within a school. "They represented the usual... Read on...

Many Faces in Education Presents: Kirsten Olson

Summary: In this interview posted on the blog, Dare the School, Kirsten Olson is interviewed and speaks about public education, charter schools, reinventing education and more. Kirsten is a leading writer in the U.S. describing... Read on...

One Year Out: Class of 2010 Shares Lessons Learned About College Readiness

Summary: One year after graduating from high school, most members of the Class of 2010 believe that earning a college degree is “definitely” worth it, according to a survey released by the College Board, a not-for-profit... Read on...

Parenting for Social Change

Summary: At its core, parenting is about love. The parent-child relationship is the foundation from which we learn how to interact in the world. When parent-child relationships are approached from our culture's dominant paradigm... Read on...

Parents Are People, Too

Summary: An honest and important article detailing the joy, struggles, and successes with democratic parenting. Written by Michele Beach who is the co-founder and director of The Patchwork School, an innovative early childhood... Read on...

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Place-Based Education: Learning to Be Where We Are

Summary: This powerful article makes the connection between students' experience of their environment, the need for real-world problem solving, and the ways in which student internships in their communities lead to positive... Read on...