This short monograph was written by Neil Richards, a Trustee of the 21st Century Learning Initiative in response to the publication of Tony Little’s book, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education.
Battling for the Soul of Education
Moving beyond school reform to educational transformation:
The findings and recommendations of 3 decades of synthesis
Download from battlingforthesoulofeducation.org
Working with Jeff Hopkins, previously Superintendent of the highly successful Gulf islands School Board District on Vancouver Island over a number of years resulted in 2013 in the opening of PSII – the Pacific School of Innovation and Improvement. See their Prospectus
A highly influential article that stimulated much public debate
Living in England but increasingly involved in Canada, and a continuing participation in ideas percolating through other countries, the British General Election of May 2010 caused the Initiative and myself to catch our collective breaths, and in the process fearing we could be gasping our last.
The most complete statement of the Initiative’s ideas
A proposal specifically directed to Oliver Letwin, Minister without portfolio in the UK Government
What the country needs now… revitalisation of civil society
An account unpacking conflicting political expectations
Funding application laying out the Initiative’s expectations for education and the conflict with present education policy
The clearest and most succinct explanation of the dilemma facing British society and the possible role of education in providing a solution
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