NCAPE PUBLIC FORUM ON PUBLIC EDUCATION
The North Country Alliance for Public Education (NCAPE) is holding our third public forum on public education on October 9th, from 6:30 – 9 pm in Yokum Hall, room 200, on the campus of SUNY Plattsburgh. The evening will begin with a viewing of Standardized Lies, Money and Civil Right: How Testing is Ruining Public Education, a film focusing on the harm that is being done through excessive standardized testing and the standardizing of curriculum. It is a powerful film that gives voice to many of the points we have shared in our first two forums. Many of us are in agreement that the hyper focus on standardizing our children’s education is of concern. We agree on what we don’t want. It is harder to come to agreement about what we do want, and that is the focus of the second part of the evening.
After viewing the film we will move into conversation about what we want for our children, and for our neighbors’ children as they attend schools in the North Country. The Federal Government has not asked us what we want for our children, and Albany has not asked us either, but we are talking about our children, our public schools, paid for with our dollars. Our voices have been missing from the conversation and we will enter that conversation this evening.
The conversations will be focused on questions such as these:
· What do you want from our schools for our children? What skills, knowledge, and dispositions do you want them to leave with by the time they have completed their time in school?
· What role should schools play in serving the public good? How should they contribute to the well being of our communities in the North Country?
· What principles should guide the decisions that schools make?
Note takers will record what is said during the evening and we will send those notes to decision makers in Albany, to school board members, superintendents and other decision makers in districts across the North Country, to media across our region, and to Arne Duncan in Washington DC.
Please join us on October 9th at 6:30 pm in Yokum 200, on the campus of SUNY Plattsburgh. Add your voice to the conversation about what we want for the children in our communities and for our public schools.
For more information contact Doug Selwyn at 518 564 5135, or Margarita Garcia-Notario at [email protected]. You can also contact us through our website: http://ncape.weebly.com
The North Country Alliance for Public Education (NCAPE) is holding our third public forum on public education on October 9th, from 6:30 – 9 pm in Yokum Hall, room 200, on the campus of SUNY Plattsburgh. The evening will begin with a viewing of Standardized Lies, Money and Civil Right: How Testing is Ruining Public Education, a film focusing on the harm that is being done through excessive standardized testing and the standardizing of curriculum. It is a powerful film that gives voice to many of the points we have shared in our first two forums. Many of us are in agreement that the hyper focus on standardizing our children’s education is of concern. We agree on what we don’t want. It is harder to come to agreement about what we do want, and that is the focus of the second part of the evening.
After viewing the film we will move into conversation about what we want for our children, and for our neighbors’ children as they attend schools in the North Country. The Federal Government has not asked us what we want for our children, and Albany has not asked us either, but we are talking about our children, our public schools, paid for with our dollars. Our voices have been missing from the conversation and we will enter that conversation this evening.
The conversations will be focused on questions such as these:
· What do you want from our schools for our children? What skills, knowledge, and dispositions do you want them to leave with by the time they have completed their time in school?
· What role should schools play in serving the public good? How should they contribute to the well being of our communities in the North Country?
· What principles should guide the decisions that schools make?
Note takers will record what is said during the evening and we will send those notes to decision makers in Albany, to school board members, superintendents and other decision makers in districts across the North Country, to media across our region, and to Arne Duncan in Washington DC.
Please join us on October 9th at 6:30 pm in Yokum 200, on the campus of SUNY Plattsburgh. Add your voice to the conversation about what we want for the children in our communities and for our public schools.
For more information contact Doug Selwyn at 518 564 5135, or Margarita Garcia-Notario at [email protected]. You can also contact us through our website: http://ncape.weebly.com