Article: Citizen-based effort calls for action to improve nation's public schools.

Article: Preserving Public Education, Not Public ...
School Administrator;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... a blind adherence to old ways of doing business. What must be preserved is public education, not public schools. Public education is the substance. Public schools are merely the form. We must remain open to other forms of delivering the substance ...

Article: Norfolk (Va.) Public Schools Wins Top Public ...
U.S. Newswire;  September 20, 2005 ;     556 words ... ... award of the nation's top prize in public education to the Norfolk school district. The Norfolk Public Schools won the largest share -- $500 ... of the $1 million Broad Prize for Public Education, which annually honors urban districts ...

Article: Why an undemocratic capitalism has brought public ...
Phi Delta Kappan;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... of the nation and of public education seems not to understand ... capitalism wants to destroy public education in favor of a system ... money. NCLB THREATENS PUBLIC SCHOOLS No Child Left Behind has made public education itself fair game for ...

Article: VOTERS ASKED TO SUPPORT SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 24, 1996 ;     566 words ... ... community in America to public education. A strong system of public education is vital for our children ... make it worse. Good public schools serve the public interest ... received the benefits of public education as we grew up because ...

Article: Can Public Involvement Revolutionize America's Public ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  November 7, 2002 ;     594 words ... ... and Reverence for Public Education" (Monday, November ... WHAT: 12th Annual Public Education Network (PEN) Conference ... working to improve public schools and build citizen support for quality public education. WHERE: Park Hyatt ...

Article: The third Bracey report on the condition of public ...
Phi Delta Kappan;  October 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... In the "Second Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education," I wrote: "We can now hope that the days of ... to show that, "so far as the quality of American public schools was concerned, the emperor had no clothes ...

Article: Bill Clinton on how to save the public ...
Washington Monthly;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... March issue, we ran a story on the peril of the country's public schools that began by noting that the nation's leaders have consistently ... private Sidwell Friends School, has "kept us waiting" on public education. Since then, the President has risen in the polls and ...