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A high-quality public education is a civil right
All children deserve access to an educational experience that fully and intentionally prepares them for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century
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- We cannot demand equal outcomes from schools without equalizing the resources they provide. Therefore, a central role of the federal government must be to ensure that all schools are funded centrally and equally
- he shared mission of our schools should be to end the predictive value of race, class, gender and special capacities on student success by working together with families and communities to ensure each individual student's success.
- Instead of thinking of educational inequities as an achievement gap, we should view them as an education debt. This term references our country’s historic inequities in educational and economic opportunities, and invites us to think about how all of us, as members of a democratic society, are implicated in creating -- and addressing -- these achievement disparities.
- we must also address the powerful impact that out-of-school factors have on student achievement, such as the role of parenting, the availability of health care, and the challenges of poverty.
- Schools should model democratic practices that involve all voices. Schools should also honor diversity and build on the strength of their communities, deliberately and explicitly challenging all forms of inequity.

10 May 08

A new handbook from Futurelab shows how learners can play a key role in the design of educational technology, and so help tackle growing inequalities in education.
'Designing Educational Technologies for Social Justice' explores the role that digital technologies can play in reducing inequality in education and offers guidance on designing educational resources that benefit disadvantaged learners.
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- in order to design educational technology and projects to reduce inequality, you have to involve those using it throughout the design process.
- Just installing the technology will not reduce inequality in education - people need confidence and a reason to use technology in ways that bring genuine benefit to them. The handbook contains a number of example educational projects where technology has been used to do just that, and where learners have played a key role in their design.
- Lyndsay Grant, Learning Researcher at Futurelab, explains: "Projects using new digital technologies are able to widen access to learning, open up new ways of learning and provide opportunities for expression, communication, collaboration and the acquisition of employable skills."

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