What Kind of Schools Do We Want?

Posted by on September 12, 2011

What Kind of Schools Do We Want?
Join Erik Reece and a Distinguished Panel for Orion’s Next Live Web Event, September 21

As part of our programming under the Orion Community banner we’re pleased to invite you to a free live web and phone event with educator and Orion contributor Erik Reece. This will be a web presentation with our usual phone format in which you will hear more about this important education feature in Orion and get to ask your questions of the author and two noted education thinkers who also will be joining in, Deborah Meier and John Taylor Gatto.

Reece writes in the current issue of Orion that “We need schools, as novelist Mark Slouka recently wrote, that produce ‘men and women capable of furthering what’s best about us and forestalling what’s worst.’ ” Is our education system anywhere close to this ideal? Read Reece’s important analysis here in the September/October issue.

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6401

One of the main thrusts of the piece is that when public education fails, democracy fails with it. Join us on September 21 (7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific) to debate this point, hear what the trends are, and ask your questions.

The event is free but registration is required. Register here.

https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=7tncwa38f70v