Sunday, May 24, 2009

Teaching Pioneer Deborah Meier on Obama’s Education Policy and the Future of Charter Schools


DemocracyNow.org
May 21, 2009

As part of the Obama administration’s education plan, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has urged states to consider partnerships with successful charter school operators. We speak to Deborah Meier, who has spent nearly four decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer and public advocate. She is considered to be the founder of the small schools movement and founded a number of public elementary and secondary schools in New York and Boston that serve predominantly low-income African American and Latino students...

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