[Dcmosls] FW: re. Gates foundation report on american education

[Charles O'Bryan]

Hi all,

Interesting report on educators' thoughts about education.

Chuck

Charles O'Bryan
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Subject: re. Gates foundation report on american education

PRIMARY SOURCES:
AMERICA'S TEACHERS ON AMERICA'S SCHOOLS

Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation asked 40,000 of our nation's public school teachers for their thoughts on American Education with the goal of placing teachers’ voices at the center of the discourse around education reform.

http://www.scholastic.com/primarysources/download.asp

In case you missed this;
This is an excellent report well worth passing along to your member schools.
>From the website they can view the broadcast and or download the report.

>From a library perspective, it actually makes libraries more important as technology and books roles change.


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