Thanks for taking time to read Education Manifesto. I intend to post my beliefs about education, pedagogy, and educational policy on this blog. Each post will most likely center around one of the following ten beliefs that make up my Education Manifesto:
1. I BELIEVE schools should focus on educating students, nothing more
2. I BELIEVE schools should be accountable to their communities, not to detached politicians
3. I BELIEVE government should support schools, not reward and/or punish them
4. I BELIEVE education should be a public enterprise
5. I BELIEVE standardized testing is jeoparding the future of our society
6. I BELIEVE current public school curricula is woefully inadequate
7. I BELIEVE teachers enter the profession with insufficient training
8. I BELIEVE teachers should view themselves as professionals and be paid accordingly
9. I BELIEVE teachers should never stop honing their craft
10. I BELIEVE American society needs to rethink its view of education