Howe’s Brooklyn: How to save public education
This concept could easily be called “A Modest Proposal” because it might be just as outrageous to some as Jonathan Swift’s bitter, biting essay about the Irish famine. But having heard some of these ideas about education, I want to pass them along to our readers. I hope that some will shoot me…that is, shoot me an email with good reasons why it wouldn’t work.
—SH
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If every family, regardless of income bracket, nationality or religion, were required to send their children to the local public school for K-4, a transformation in education could occur.