“We need the CCPA to remind us that our dreams of a decent, egalitarian society are reasonable — indeed that with a little work, they are practical. And I love that practicality, that protection of the dream of the possible.”
— Naomi Klein
In the Winter 2010 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves editors Larry Kuehn and Erika Shaker delve into the struggle between the demands for standardization and the reality of diversity in education.
Our Schools/Our Selves: The Achievement Agenda: Education or Evaluation? looks at different concepts that question "the Achievement Agenda", something that repeatedly appears to privilege narrow evaluation over broad, authentic education and learning, and standardization over diversity.
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