The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds
of others, were submitted as
part of the Rethink Learning
Now campaign, a
national grassroots effort to change the tenor
of our
national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture
of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture
of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions
of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress
of our nation's schoolchildren.