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Lessons in Learning: Community Based Education Reform
July 25, 2001
Listen/download helpMany schools across the United States are literally falling apart. And students are trying to learn in overcrowded and under-funded classrooms. As solutionsto a national crisis in education, President Bush and the U.S. Congress are pushing increased testing requirements and stiff penalties for schools that fail to show improvements. On this program, we take a look at so-called education reform and what some communities are doing to improve their schools.
Featuring:
Tiffany Edmundson and Adrien McClinton, The Young Peoples' Project; Kitty Kelly Epstein, Associate Professor of Education; Michael Fillerup, Director of Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language Programs for the Flagstaff Unified School District; Ed Kealy, Executive Director, Committee for Education Funding; Barbara Miner, Managing Editor, "Rethinking Schools"; Bob Moses, Founder, The Algebra Project.
For more information:
The Young Peoples' Project
P.O. Box 24324
Jackson, MS 39225
601-346-5995;
fax: 601-346-5970
Holy Names College
3500 Mountain Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619
510-436-1000
Committee for Education Funding
122 C St. NW, Ste.280
Washington, DC 20001
tel: 202-383-0083; ekealy@cef.org
www.cef.org
Rethinking Schools
1001 E. Keefe Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53212
414-964-9646, or 800-669-4192;
fax: 414-964-7220
www.rethinkingschools.org
Bob Moses
Founder, The Algebra Project
co-author, "Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights"
999 Bishop Allen Dr.
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-491-0200 or 1-888-817-1131 x123
www.algebra.org