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What Is a Democracy School?

How can we define what makes a school "public" with democracy in mind, and what kinds of evidence could schools present to demonstrate that they have democratic foundations?

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Citizens as Co-Creators

This blog argues that any concept of democracy schools that has much impact will have to challenge the "consumer" identities which are now widespread, in education and in virtually every area of...

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Schools Are Democracy Sites, Not Chain Stores

I'm hoping for a conversation that might lead to greater agreement about what kind of democratic processes entitle a school to public funding.

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Democracy Schools: Lessons From Escuela Nueva

This blog, answering Meier's question about what list of elements should be necessary for public funding, with democracy in mind, argues that democracy educators in the United States have much to learn...

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Thinking Big: How to Expand Democratic Schools

How can we come up with a set of basic principles of democratic accountability and sufficient autonomy for our schools?

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From Rage to Responsibility

In this blog Harry Boyte asks how can a discussion of principles that should govern accountable, publicly supported schools include the idea that we are all responsible citizens and creators of...

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Dignity and Respect in Public Schools

What would it take to operate schools so that all members of the extended community are treated respectfully? How might one express this as a "mandate" for any school that expects to receive public...

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Taking on Prejudice Against Working-Class Whites in Schools

In building a democracy school coalition, Boyte asks how we can address the widespread prejudices against working-class whites.

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Have We Lost Respect for Hard Work?

As Bernie Sanders reintroduces the word 'socialism' into our respectable political vocabularies, it's time to revisit a value system that respects all work that improves the world. The least...

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A Federal Initiative on Democracy in Schools?

What might be a federal policy for a new administration that would help create a school system for a democratic way of life?

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Inviting Policy Ideas for Democracy Schools

We need to introduce policies that will turn schools into places where adults and youths learn to use their voices effectively, have respect and empathy for others, and discover what a community is and...

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Free Spaces in Democracy Schools

The work of creating and sustaining free spaces in and around schools, where there is room for people to develop public capacities ("democratic habits") and democratic intellectual life, is a crucial...

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Teaching Democratic Politics and Other Habits

Schools are hardly designed to encourage "confrontations" over our strongly held views in ways that, over time, lead us to reconsider our own opinions.

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Putting the People Back in Politics

Schools need to teach and practice "citizen politics," politics revolving around citizens, not politics revolving around politicians, professionals, or parties, if schools are to be true to their...

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Schools vs. Elections as Sites for Controversy

The absence of excitement about controversial ideas that the young demonstrate in school contrasts sharply with their excited reactions to Trump, Clinton and Sanders, etc.

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Democratic Stirrings in Higher Education

Today, when higher education faces ferocious attack, we need a broad movement to revitalize the democratic purposes and practices of colleges and universities -- for the sake of the whole society.

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How Habits Support Democratic Schooling

Deborah Meier describes the five "habits of mind," the basis of Boston's Mission Hill School.

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Citizen Professionals as Democratic Patriots

Discussing and advancing democratic habits can help us move from objects of change to agents of change. And the process needs democratic habits of work, a focus on "hands" as well as "mind," and also...

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What Defines a Public School?

Schools play the greatest role in sustaining the idea of democracy—and for this reason, we must rethink the qualities a public school should have.

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Putting the Public in Public Schools

At the University of Illinois last week, I was struck by how much leaders with vision in higher education understand that the broader citizenry needs to be brought into the conversation about public...

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