| What Education Reformers should know about our commitment to Participatory democracy: "Public education, after all, is the cornerstone of democracy. Americans maintain a reverence and devotion to the tenets of American democracy and tend to feel a deep sense of injustice when those claiming to operate in the public interest betray those ideals.One of the key issues at the center of public opposition to Corporate Education Reform enters on the undemocratic practices its supporters have pursued which runs counter to the Constitution. Constitutionalism and Participatory Democracy have always been the cornerstones of Americaà ??s "civil theology"à ??our real political common core as it were. Yet what we are witnessing from education "reformers' violates this public faith and trust the most dangerous of ways, by imperiling public education and undermining democracy." |
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