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First World Education Problems

Nancy’s reflection based on the North Dakota Study Group/IDEA meeting in Detroit. My consulting group–Jonah Canner, Ofir Germanic, Sarah Bertucci, Eric DeMeulenaere–helped me think through the challenges of writing the piece, being fair to all parties, and raising the right questions. Their fingerprints (brainprints?) are all over these blogs. Thanks. Here’s a link to Pt I and Pt II (on our site visit to Catherine Ferguson) is also up. Pt III will be about democratic education in America, using Detroit as lens.

part 1

from part 2

Andrews told us: I’ve been called a visionary, but I’m not. I just listened to pregnant girls talk about their hopes and their needs.

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Nancy Flanagan is an education writer and consultant focusing on teacher leadership. She spent 30 years in a K-12 music classroom in Hartland, Mich, and was named Michigan Teacher of the Year in 1993. She is National Board-certified, and a member of the Teacher Leaders Network. She welcomes feedback on her sharp-eyed perspectives on the inconsistencies and inspirations, the incomprehensible, immoral and imaginative, in American education. She is a digital organizer for IDEA (Institute for Democratic Education in America). You can follow her on Twitter @nancyflanagan.