A Primer on Education
One in four high school students in America don't graduate - one in three among black and Hispanic populations. Reading, math, and science achievement scores for American public school students rank average to below average compared to OECD nations, with little improvement since 2000. These facts, and a host of others, point to what many agree is an education system in crisis.
There is less agreement, though, on the causes of the crisis, and still less on the solutions. The usual suspects in these discussions are the following:
Background Posts on Education
Education Editor
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Alex DiBranco
- New York, NY
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Alex DiBranco is a Change.org Editor.
Alex is passionate about feminism, queer issues, sex positivism, atheism/secular humanism, full rights for everyone who crosses our borders (voluntarily or not), and critiquing America’s flawed educational system. She has interned and written for The Nation, Political Research Associates (a think-tank that monitors the right-wing), and the Center for American Progress. Alex is now based in New York City and writes poetry on the sly.
Writers
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jessica shiller
- brooklyn, NY
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Jessica Shiller is an assistant professor of education and coordinator of the master’s program in teaching social studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her research interests include urban school reform, social justice education, community activism and youth, and education policy. She has taught courses in urban education, foundations of education, social studies methods and history.
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Sara Bernard
- Berkeley, CA
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Sara Bernard is a former staff writer and multimedia producer for Edutopia magazine, a publication of the George Lucas Educational Foundation (www.edutopia.org). A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and an avid traveler, she now freelances and splits her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of the world.
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Rose Garrett
- San Francisco, CA
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Rose Garrett is Assistant Editor at Education.com. She believes that educational inequality is a fundamental challenge to our democracy, and hopes that creative thinking, innovative leadership, and good old-fashioned problem-solving can foster change. She lives in San Francisco and enjoys cooking, capoeira, and education reporting.
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Mike Smith
- San Francisco, United Kingdom
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Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org. Email: mike@change.org
