John Merrow Offers a List of Thoughtful Gifts for the Year’s End

By dianeravitch

December 29, 2016 //

Veteran journalist John Merrow suggests “thoughtful gifts” for those who make year-end donations.

I am pleased to see that the Network for public Education is one of the worthy groups he recommends.

Thank you, John! And happy 2017!

Thoughtful Gifts

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Duane Swacker says:

December 30, 2016 at 9:17 am

And here is his take on NPE:

NETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: Only a few years old, NPE already has more than 100,000 individual members as well as dozens of grassroots local groups. Started by veteran teacher Anthony Cody and historian Diane Ravitch, NPE opposes high-stakes testing; privatization of public education; mass school closures to save money or to facilitate privatization; demonization of teachers; lowering of standards for the education profession; and for-profit management of schools. While that’s a mouthful, the list of what NPE supports is much, much longer, including schools that offer a full and rich curriculum for all children, including the arts, physical education, history, civics, foreign languages, literature, mathematics, and the sciences; early childhood education; high standards of professionalism; and assessments that are used to support children and teachers, not to punish or stigmatize them or to hand out monetary rewards.

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