Don’t Forget Ed
I just facebook’ed a link to dontforgeted.org – but 140 characters were not enough to add my 2¢ worth.
I think that education should be among our candidates top priorities. But our problem is not education nearly as much as it is educating so many children who live in poverty.
When you compare the scores of American children from higher socio-economic backgrounds with nations that do not suffer the levels of poverty that are tolerated in the U.S., then we actually do quite well! For instance, schools in the U.S. with fewer than 10% of their students living in or near poverty scored 551 on the PISA math test, second only to Shanghai, China.
So, at the same time that I think public education in the U.S. should be a top priority, the problems of education won’t be solved by government mandates or privatization.
The welfare of all the “people” in the United States is the top concern.
That said, here’s the link – http://dontforgeted.org
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September 27th, 2012 @ 9:55 pm
I received a wonderful public school education and I just graduated from college in May! Education is so important and everyone needs equal opportunity to learn and experience a good classroom setting!
Currently, I am a production assistant on a documentary film and web project called GO PUBLIC based in Pasadena, CA. We sent 50 filmmakers (40 professional documentary crews and 10 high school student crews trained in documentary filmmaking) on to all 28 public school campuses in PUSD in one day with the intent of capturing “a day in the life” of a very diverse, urban public school district. We wanted to show what happens behind those walls through the lenses of 50 different directors. We’d love if you would have a look at our site, http://www.gopublicproject.org. We launched all 50 of our short films on August 15 and are continuing to work on the feature length documentary.
Here’s an example of one of our 50 short films: https://vimeo.com/46766453
Here’s also a link to our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/gopublicproject
Finally, just last week, we launched a kickstarter campaign to raise support for post-production on the full-length film. If possible, we would love your financial support toward the completion of this fantastic film: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/673059243/go-public-a-day-in-the-life-of-pusd?ref=home_location
Thank you so much!
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October 5th, 2012 @ 2:07 am
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