Illinois 21st Century School Reform Initiative
Click the above link to download the 10 page document, “Illinois 21st Century School Reform Initiative”.
We believe in the philosphy of Ron Edmonds who said “We can, whenever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interst to us. we already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far.”
What drives this effort is the well-documented fact that too many students are failing to learn, failing to compete academically, and failing to complete their education in Illinois. That failure is compounded by the reality that youth of today will be confronted with a world-information economy that demands better than we’ve produced in the past-and therefore makes the prospects for those who fall short of success even gloomier than we now face.
To not fix these problems ... Read More...
