Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried - and - true ingredients that work, in combination with one another, to spur success in urban schools. (edweek.org)
PAA is committed to bringing the voice of public school parents — and common sense — to local, state, and national education debates.» (teachertomsblog.blogspot.ru)
Moreover, local school politics has sometimes been more pragmatic and open to negotiated compromise than national education debates. (sciencedaily.com)