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Fixing Schools, Wholesale Responses to "You Can't Buy Your Way Out of a Bureaucracy"
The New York Times, December 6, 2004 Letters to the editor of The New York Times responded to "You Can't Buy Your Way Out of a Bureaucracy," an op-ed on the burden of law in public schools by Common Good chair Philip K. Howard.
One teacher said:
As a public high school English and humanities teacher, I experience many of the problems mentioned by Philip K. Howard. One of his major points, and the one I agree with most, is allowing teachers and principals to think for themselves, with appropriate expectations to accompany such responsibility.
Rather than letting law alone "set the goals and basic principles" of education, perhaps the parents and teachers who "know what's going on, and who's good and who's not," should have a formative role in curriculum and implementation.
Read this and other letters in The New York Times. (Archived article).
Read about Common Good's new Over Ruled study, which highlights the burden of law on public schools nationwide.
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