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Three Questions:

•What changes need to be made to achieve thesepurposes?

•How can we know if these purposes are being achieved?

•What should be the purposes of public education?

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Ground Rules

• Hold one conversation at a time

• Participate

• Respect all comments and opinions

• Stay on time with the agenda

• Be tough on the issues, not on each other

What should be the purposes of public education?

• Purpose: “The public schools should prepare students for citizenship.”

• Measure: “Percentage of high school students who practice good citizenship.”

•Purpose: “The public schools should improve the college-going rate.”

•Measure: “Percentage of high school graduates who go on to attend colleges and universities.”

How can we know if these purposes are being achieved?

Keep and strengthen somethingExample: Increase parental reinforcement of classroom lessons.

Get rid of somethingExample: Eliminate driver education in this community.

Add somethingExample: Establish a co-op program.

What changes need to be made to achieve these purposes?

Where do we go from here?

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