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When Youth Own the Public Education Agenda

Mimi Ito | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mimi Ito

Imagine what it would mean to think of public education as a mission shouldered not only by schools, but also by a wide range of public institutions committed to knowledge and learning?

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Producing Sparks of Learning

Marsha L. Semmel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marsha L. Semmel

For many of us, sparks of learning happened not only in the classroom, but in a garden, a park, and especially in a library or museum.

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Education: Reform or Transformation? A Report from the 2010 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ellen Galinsky

The United States was once first in the world in college graduation rates, we are now 14th. Many well-known speakers from very diverse fields at see the need for educational change as a societal, economic and moral imperative

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