“Try to broaden the public rationale for what education is for”
Mike Rose is an education scholar and is noted for his significant contribution to the study of literacy and for his insights into the struggles of working-class America. Currently, Rose is Professor of Social Research Methodology in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
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“Transforming public education…is all about the human capital pipeline.”
Michael Johnston is Principal of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts (MESA) in North Denver and was a co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools.
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Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
A Joint Policy Statement of The Algebra Project, Young People’s Project, and Quality Public Education as a Constitutional Right as presented by Ryan Mason and Megan Sherman of the Baltimore Algebra Project:
Just as voting rights were required for full citizenship in the United States forty years ago, economic access is required for full citizenship today. In the 21st century, education is the essential pathway for young people to that economic access. Unless young people gain economic access through high quality education and meaningful employment, they and their children will be confined to the margins of life—often the criminal justice system—and caught in a relentless cycle of disenfranchisement.
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