Home

A Parent Proposal to Assist Struggling Schools

Open letter to Sec. Arne Duncan

Framing: More Powerful Than A Locomotive

Not long ago, I had the good fortune to find a seat at a special screening of the new documentary "Waiting for Superman" in Ann Arbor. The documentary is a skillfully constructed view of how our urban public schools often fail their students, though it is not without some serious faults. (Many of those are discussed better, elsewhere.) But the film overreaches when it tries to claim that because some urban schools are in trouble, the entirety of American public education is in trouble. That claim, for which the film provides no evidence, motivates the film's call for radical reform. But if the problems are not so endemic, and if different schools struggle with different issues, maybe the answer is more complicated, and varied, as well.
Departments: 

Pages

We need your help.

Help keep us running.

Contribute today!

Coming events

There are no events to display.

In the news

MIPFS on the state's brief claiming the Detroit literacy lawsuit is "moot."


MIPFS on Twitter

Drupal theme by pixeljets.com D7 ver.1.1