Horace 3 | Vol 24 (9)
Education and Democracy: This issue looks at civic engagement to understand the ways that educators, students, and communities that support schools involve themselves in politics and policy creation to create and sustain personalized, equitable, and academically challenging schools for all students. And
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- Educating the World: Essential Schools as Agents of Change and Influence Schools face a relentless torrent of demands without receiving the kinds of support they need and deserve. So it is not easy to expect that they would voluntarily add to their ever-growing lists of... December 09, 2008 by Lewis Cohen
- Civil Rights and Social Justice: A Path to Engagement and Transformation “Wow! You kids know so much. I never knew anything about the civil rights movement when I was your age. In fact, I didn’t learn much about it in college either, until now.” A... December 09, 2008 by Flo Golod
- Speaking for Democracy My co-teacher, Donnie, and I were in costume. He was Malcolm X. I was George Wallace. In character, we spoke passages from our most famous speeches. By the end of the third minute of class, I was... December 12, 2008 by Andrew Barron
- Choosing To Participate Ask students what to “participate” means. In a year of a presidential election, would they say it means to choose to vote for the candidate of their choice? Would they say that it means to make... December 09, 2008
- Having the Courage To Act on Your Beliefs: Horace Interviews Marcy Raymond and Dan Hoffman on the Founding and Influence of Metro High School Metro High School, in Columbus, Ohio, is a public high school emphasizing math, science, and technology in a small, personalized learning environment. Originally conceived through a grant from CES... December 12, 2008
- Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue SCHOOLS Beachwood High School 25100 Fairmount Boulevard Beachwood, Ohio 44122 telephone: 216.831.2080 www.beachwood.k12.oh.us/bhs/index.html Boston International High School 25 Glen... January 06, 2009
- Education and Democracy: Back to the Future I know it’s 2008, but the prospect of a new administration—and a new U.S. Department of Education—has me thinking about 2001. I have to admit that when the No Child Left Behind... December 09, 2008 by George Wood
- Where to Go for More: Resources for Education for Democracy Advancement Project Advancement Project is a useful resource for classrooms, independent studies, and other investigations in the realms of social justice and equity in the United States.... January 06, 2009
- Notes on this Issue Today’s ninth grader will be 50 in 2045. While that may seem like the distant future to them, those of us who are closer to 50 than 14 know that time marches on swiftly. Right now, those young... December 09, 2008 by Jill Davidson
