| Rethinking School Reform
Rethinking Schools, founded in 1986 by
activist teachers, is a nonprofit, independent publisher of
educational materials. They advocate the reform of elementary
and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues
of equity and social justice. Schools and classrooms, they
believe, should be laboratories for a more just society than
the one we now live in. After years of high-profile national
debate on school reform, they think this proposition is more
central than ever to the success, perhaps even the survival,
of public education.
The Five R’s
The summons to change educational practices
in the face of continued Hispanic student underachievement
are not to be ignored, writes Dr. Eugene Garcia, Dean of the
College of Education at Arizona State University in his recent
book, Hispanic Education in the United States: Raices
y Alas. He calls upon a set of recommendations that use
a particular mnemonic, “remember the five R’s”
saying that educational programs, initiatives, strategies
and policies that assist language minority students should
be: Respectful, Responsive, Responsible, Resourceful, and
Reasonable.
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