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Article: Fulfilling the public purpose of schooling: educating the young in support of democracy may be leadership's highest calling.
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- School Administrator
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- May 1, 2004
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During the past dozen years, I have spent hundreds of hours discussing the relationship between education and democracy in seminars with groups of school- and university-based educators. The Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle provides a homelike setting that encourages intensive dialogue and planning for action in the school-university partnerships they represent.
IEI is a nonprofit agency near the University of Washington in Seattle. Its purpose is that of advancing the public mission of schooling--that of educating the young for responsible, satisfying citizenship in our associational and political democracy.
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