What Rural Schools Can Teach Urban Systems
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https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v8i2.429Abstract
One teacher I know likes to imagine a TV game show that would set down its contestants in a McDonald's anywhere in the world and challenge them to name its location before the buzzer sounds. The very difficulty of the task would make a rude reminder, he observes, of what we are losing in our headlong rush to a world economy - the countless, precious idiosyncratic differences that tell us where we are, and who we are, and why it matters what we do together in that place. In out-of-the-way communities around the country, a steady conversation around that theme is emerging, which challenges conventional wisdom about the relation of school and community, the purpose of academic studies, and the past and future of the nation itself. And though it has begun in rural places -whose students have long been marginalized, dismissed, or in a few cases scooped into the mainstream of "success" away from home - the ferment has found like-minded friends in central cities, who are struggling with the very same issues.
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