SOLD OUT - Persuasion Workshop For Education Advocates
Mon, Apr 17
|Zoom
This persuasion workshop is designed to help education advocates resist attempts to politicize the classroom, focusing instead on achieving academic transparency and real student equity.
Time & Location
Apr 17, 2023, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Zoom
About the event
EDUCATION WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: America’s students have never been in greater need of persuasive advocates to propel reforms and advance their academic interests. While Chinese third graders learn calculus concepts, ours aren’t reading or doing math at grade level, with our most vulnerable at-risk students suffering the most. Considering national reading and math scores for 17-year-olds haven’t risen since 1970 despite a tripling of K-12 spending, American students are getting a raw deal, endangering American society.
Despite crisis levels of student under-performance and mental health distress made worse by pandemic lockdowns, school systems continue to divert scarce educational dollars into non-academic programming including controversial ideologies designed to politicize the classroom. Meanwhile, untrained and unlicensed teachers are doubling as therapists in the classroom, further jeopardizing our children’s well-being.
We have an obligation to students – and the taxpayers who fund their education – to get back to basics so they are academically…