NBC Nightly News will feature community groups screening and supporting the concepts presented in the film tonight, March 8 . Our RTNW HSV support group meets tonight at CDS at 6:30 to plan action items to bring to our community. One suggestion is a community wide homework free night!
The film was also featured recently by CNN. And Katie Couric did a nice interview with the films director. Jon Stewart of The Daily Show has done pieces on it with Matt Damon and education expert, Diane Ravich.
My read on all of this is that a grass roots movement is growing to support a more thoughtful and humane educational reform effort. It is push back from the failed No Child Left Behind effort and the new but equally insane Race to the Top. Both bash teachers and hold high stakes standardized testing as the measure of success. Neither supports real learning for kids....ask any teacher for their thoughts about this issue. I think a real battle is about to begin. Sure hope it will be an outcome that is good for all our children and grand children.
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