Thursday, December 3, 2009

What does Our Education mean by a constitutional right to "high quality education"?

As a nation, we will never have "high quality education" for all until we first reach a meaningful definition for what "high quality" education actually means. Yet in America today, there exists a separate definition for quality in each of the 50 states and each of the more than 15,000 school districts around the country. Thus, by pushing for a constitutional right to "high quality education," one of the goals of the Our Education movement is to spark a national conversation about what quality of education all American children should receive. An open discussion about the skills and knowledge sets that all students should possess upon graduation would go far towards ensuring that our nation is able to respond to the challenges of the 21 st century. With this in mind, Our Education is planning to hold a national youth conference at which a representative body of high school students from across the nation will gather to create a student definition of what the right to "high quality" education ought to mean. The goal is for this statement of student priorities and beliefs to kick-start a much needed dialogue among other key stakeholders about the kinds of schools and education that all American children should have access to and we as a nation believe "high quality education" ought to mean.

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