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• W291207209 abstract "How to engage the public in a discussion of the future of the public schools should be at the top of every community's agenda, according to Mr. Rose and Mr. Rapp. Forums such as those described here offer one way of reaching that goal. Engaging the public in a discussion of the public schools is a challenging, difficult, and potentially promising activity. This is the conclusion drawn from the 28 forums that Phi Delta Kappa, in cooperation with the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the National PTA, conducted during the past year. The undertaking is challenging because a great deal of time and energy are required to bring people together in a situation in which productive discussion can be held. It is difficult because people are reluctant to spend the time required to engage in substantive discussion, because some see the effort as a means of defending the status quo and are reluctant to participate, and because building the database needed to support informed discussion is not easy. It is promising because the public, once engaged, demonstrates a keen interest in the public schools, a willingness to discuss the issues presented, and a sincere desire to make the schools better. Background Engaging the public in discussion is not a new idea for Phi Delta Kappa. In 1989 a Phi Delta Kappa commission submitted a report suggesting that the organization engage the public at the community level in discussions designed to build support for the public schools. The centerpiece of those discussions was to be an easy-to-read publication tracing the history of the public schools and the contributions they have made to America. The Phi Delta Kappa board of directors appropriated funds to underwrite the effort and asked Ralph Tyler to produce the proposed publication. Unfortunately, Tyler's health did not permit, and, when other efforts to get the publication written proved unsuccessful, the project languished. Those at Phi Delta Kappa were, therefore, delighted when Jack Jennings, executive director of the Center on Education Policy (CEP), came forward in the fall of 1995 to ask about Phi Delta Kappa's interest in publishing a booklet, Do We Still Need Public Schools? This publication did exactly what the original Phi Delta Kappa commission had hoped: it detailed why public schools were established and then asked whether those reasons are still valid. Plans for engaging the public at the community level were quickly revived, and CEP was invited to be a partner in the effort. Jennings, a strong believer in the need to reach out to the public, became an enthusiastic advocate for the project. It was through his efforts that the National PTA became a partner and agreed to provide some funding, support for the forums, and administrative leadership where needed. With this support and major funding provided by Phi Delta Kappa and the Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, the project was ready to go forward. The Intent The planning committee, consisting of representatives of Phi Delta Kappa, Jack Jennings of CEP, and Shirley Igo of the National PTA, resolved to conduct a series of forums in which a widely representative group of stakeholders would come together to discuss the future of the public schools. How to do that became the focus of planning. The committee believed it was charting new ground and quickly determined that the initial effort should be regarded as a learning experience. The committee began its work by developing a rationale for the effort. It felt it best to recognize from the start that the three sponsoring agencies would be identified as organizations that believe that the public schools are better than they are given credit for being. However, the committee considered that fact largely irrelevant since these organizations also freely acknowledge that the public schools are not nearly as good as they can be or need to be. The committee also concluded that, whatever the success of the various reform efforts, the demographics of American education are such that the overwhelming majority of American children are going to be educated in the public schools for the foreseeable future. …" @default.
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