A New Future for American Education
Campaign for America's Future | www.ourfuture.org
Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer
With just a slight shift in priorities, America can give every child the opportunity to succeed. The Institute for America's Future and the Center for American Progress have charted a new direction for the future of American public education. Please take a moment to see our new solutions and challenge your member of Congress to join you in fighting for them. GO ยป
As our children go back to school this fall, they begin a school year defined by the needs of a 19th century agricultural society, and enter classrooms structured to fit the assembly line needs of an early 20th century industrial society. It's no wonder so many of our kids aren't getting the education they need to thrive in the global economy of the 21st century.
The President's approach to education reform -- in the wake of No Child Left Behind -- has focused more on how to measure failure than on the transformations needed for success. The president is failing to fully fund his own flawed program by $39 billion and continues to break his promise to raise Pell Grants, the central college aid program. Adding insult to injury, conservatives in Congress are pushing an education budget that won't even keep up with inflation, while spending $4 billion a month in Iraq and pushing to eliminate taxes on the estates of the wealthiest Americans.
America's public schools need reforms that will ensure students gain the tools and opportunities they need to succeed. Along with our partners at the Center for American Progress, we are pleased to introduce Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer: A Progressive Education Agenda for a Stronger Nation -- the product of a remarkable task force of business, academic and political leaders.
Please take a moment to learn more about the bold solutions we've proposed and challenge your member of Congress to join you in fighting for them.
http://www.ourfuture.org/education_solutions.cfm
Our new progressive education agenda calls for...
More Learning Time: Every student has a right to quality pre-school and kindergarten, after-school educational opportunities and a school year that maximizes learning.
Quality Teachers and Principals: All students have a right to be taught by skilled educators. Every teacher and principal should receive high quality training before they enter school, have on-the-job training opportunities and be rewarded for excellence. With teachers in high demand in the modern economy, we will need to pay them more, and provide them with career opportunities, if we hope to retain the best.
An Equal Education: Every student has the right to learn on equal footing with their peers -- undistracted by health, housing and other economic and social concerns. The savage inequality in school funding must be challenged, and teachers should receive financial incentives to teach in the schools with the most at risk children.
A Quality, Rigorous Education: Every student should be provided a quality education, with demanding curriculum standards in core subject areas. Voluntary national standards can help parents hold schools accountable.
Affordable College: No student should be priced out of the college or advanced technical training they need to succeed in the modern economy.
Please take a moment to learn more about the new progressive vision for public education and challenge your Representative and Senators to fight for solutions that put American children back at the top of our country's list of priorities.
http://www.ourfuture.org/education_solutions.cfm
The right to a high quality public education is central to the American promise. Equal education depends on providing every child with the tools to learn and the opportunity to succeed. The right wing assault on public education, its continued opposition to the investment that we need and its preference for subsidizing private schools rather than building modern, first class public schools is a disservice to our nation's children. Conservatives would punish schools for their failure rather than provide the reforms and resources needed to make them succeed. Our children pay the price for their folly.
The current state of American public education speaks poignantly to the need for new solutions. Too many poor children lack adequate nutrition. An astonishing 14 million children are left to take care of themselves alone after the school day ends. We're losing one-third of our new teachers after only three years. The poorest students with the greatest needs get the most inexperienced teachers, often with no certification in the subjects they teach. And, college costs are soaring out of reach for more and more working families.
There is another way. Please take a look at our bold reform agenda, help us get it in front of lawmakers' eyes, and challenge them to endorse and champion a new direction. It is time to put our children first.
http://www.ourfuture.org/education_solutions.cfm
Thank you so much for helping us open a new era of progressive reform, so that we may ensure that No Child Left Behind is a reality, not a rhetorical throwaway line.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Borosage, Co-Director
Campaign for America's Future
Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer
With just a slight shift in priorities, America can give every child the opportunity to succeed. The Institute for America's Future and the Center for American Progress have charted a new direction for the future of American public education. Please take a moment to see our new solutions and challenge your member of Congress to join you in fighting for them. GO ยป
As our children go back to school this fall, they begin a school year defined by the needs of a 19th century agricultural society, and enter classrooms structured to fit the assembly line needs of an early 20th century industrial society. It's no wonder so many of our kids aren't getting the education they need to thrive in the global economy of the 21st century.
The President's approach to education reform -- in the wake of No Child Left Behind -- has focused more on how to measure failure than on the transformations needed for success. The president is failing to fully fund his own flawed program by $39 billion and continues to break his promise to raise Pell Grants, the central college aid program. Adding insult to injury, conservatives in Congress are pushing an education budget that won't even keep up with inflation, while spending $4 billion a month in Iraq and pushing to eliminate taxes on the estates of the wealthiest Americans.
America's public schools need reforms that will ensure students gain the tools and opportunities they need to succeed. Along with our partners at the Center for American Progress, we are pleased to introduce Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer: A Progressive Education Agenda for a Stronger Nation -- the product of a remarkable task force of business, academic and political leaders.
Please take a moment to learn more about the bold solutions we've proposed and challenge your member of Congress to join you in fighting for them.
http://www.ourfuture.org/education_solutions.cfm
Our new progressive education agenda calls for...
More Learning Time: Every student has a right to quality pre-school and kindergarten, after-school educational opportunities and a school year that maximizes learning.
Quality Teachers and Principals: All students have a right to be taught by skilled educators. Every teacher and principal should receive high quality training before they enter school, have on-the-job training opportunities and be rewarded for excellence. With teachers in high demand in the modern economy, we will need to pay them more, and provide them with career opportunities, if we hope to retain the best.
An Equal Education: Every student has the right to learn on equal footing with their peers -- undistracted by health, housing and other economic and social concerns. The savage inequality in school funding must be challenged, and teachers should receive financial incentives to teach in the schools with the most at risk children.
A Quality, Rigorous Education: Every student should be provided a quality education, with demanding curriculum standards in core subject areas. Voluntary national standards can help parents hold schools accountable.
Affordable College: No student should be priced out of the college or advanced technical training they need to succeed in the modern economy.
Please take a moment to learn more about the new progressive vision for public education and challenge your Representative and Senators to fight for solutions that put American children back at the top of our country's list of priorities.
http://www.ourfuture.org/education_solutions.cfm
The right to a high quality public education is central to the American promise. Equal education depends on providing every child with the tools to learn and the opportunity to succeed. The right wing assault on public education, its continued opposition to the investment that we need and its preference for subsidizing private schools rather than building modern, first class public schools is a disservice to our nation's children. Conservatives would punish schools for their failure rather than provide the reforms and resources needed to make them succeed. Our children pay the price for their folly.
The current state of American public education speaks poignantly to the need for new solutions. Too many poor children lack adequate nutrition. An astonishing 14 million children are left to take care of themselves alone after the school day ends. We're losing one-third of our new teachers after only three years. The poorest students with the greatest needs get the most inexperienced teachers, often with no certification in the subjects they teach. And, college costs are soaring out of reach for more and more working families.
There is another way. Please take a look at our bold reform agenda, help us get it in front of lawmakers' eyes, and challenge them to endorse and champion a new direction. It is time to put our children first.
http://www.ourfuture.org/education_solutions.cfm
Thank you so much for helping us open a new era of progressive reform, so that we may ensure that No Child Left Behind is a reality, not a rhetorical throwaway line.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Borosage, Co-Director
Campaign for America's Future
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