An Alternative Vision for Public Education: Four Short Web Videos
Four
short video conversations (embedded here) bring the voices of Dr. John Jackson
and Dr. Diane Ravitch to explore serious concerns raised in a Pastoral Letter adopted by the National Council of Churches Governing Board about today’s federal public education policy.
We also
provide a Study Guide to help you explore important questions.
What is the impact of poverty on educational
opportunity?
How can the church help ensure opportunity to learn
for all children?
Why the attacks on school teachers and on schools as
community institutions?
Video 1:
Educational Opportunity for All — John Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott
Foundation, and education historian Diane Ravitch discuss why our society must
rise to the challenge of providing educational opportunity for every child in
public schools.
Educational
Opportunity for All
Video 2:
Public Schools and the Common Good — Education historian Diane Ravitch and John
Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation consider what appears to be
a timetable for the destruction of America’s system of public education and the
imposition of competitive programs that create winners and losers, when the
mission of public schools is to serve every child.
Public
Schools and the Common Good
Video 3:
Public Schools, Part of the Community or Marketplace? — Education historian
Diane Ravitch and John Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation,
reflect on the public role of public schools as an expression of our common
purpose. How is it we have come to use a data driven approach to judge the most
important things in life, things that do not have metrics like the love of
learning?
Public
Schools, Part of the Community or Marketplace
Video 4:
Supporting Our Teachers — John Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott
Foundation, and education historian Diane Ravitch reflect together on how our
society has come to demonize public school teachers. How is it that we have
people doing some of the most important work of society being abused, ashamed
and humiliated? Why does this have to stop?
Jan Resseger Minister for Public Education and Witness Program Team Based in Cleveland, Ohio Justice And Witness Ministries 700 Prospect Ave. Cleveland,Ohio 44115 216-736-3711 ressegerj@ucc.org
