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Article: Preserving Public Education, Not Public Schools.
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Public education is in a period of extreme danger. The threat comes not only from the critics and from those who would destroy public education through vouchers or other means. It comes from a dramatically changing world that allows students and parents to access learning without going to a formal institution called school.
In the words of technology guru Donald Tapscott, we have been "disintermediated," much as the church was after the invention of the printing press.
This dual threat--from those who would dismantle us in the name of improvement and from the simple reality of emerging alternative channels to learning--ultimately endangers not only ...