{"id":471,"date":"2011-08-04T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=471"},"modified":"2012-04-26T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T21:08:22","slug":"take-aways-from-the-save-our-schools-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/take-aways-from-the-save-our-schools-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Take-aways from the Save Our Schools March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Save our Schools March and National Call to Action wrapped up in Washington, DC this weekend.\u00a0 The event consisted of a two-day conference and followed by a march and rally in the nation\u2019s capital.\u00a0 The event, hosted by a grassroots teacher advocacy group called Save Our Schools, was staged in protest to many of the reforms promoted by the current administration.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the March organizers, Bob Schaeffer, said that after the rally there were \u201ctremendously high spirits\u2026everybody thought the march and conference that preceded it did exactly what they wanted.\u00a0 They delivered the right message.\u201d\u00a0 So what is that message, and what should policy analysts take from it?<\/p>\n<p>Save Our Schools (SOS) was established by DC area classroom teachers and teacher educators in an effort to get their voices heard on the educational issues of the day:\u00a0 No Child Left Behind and the Race to the Top.\u00a0 The SOS website explains: \u201cThough we have the knowledge, the expertise, and the relationships with students that make education possible, teachers, parents and students themselves have been shut out of the school reform discussion\u2026we demand a humane, empowering education for every child in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although SOS has a number of demands, many of which are unlikely to gain much traction in this reform era (including the end of high-stakes testing and no new school closures based on performance), reformers should heed the message that teachers are feeling left out of well-intentioned reforms and largely un-heard and undervalued.<\/p>\n<p>Education policy has changed more in the past two years than it has in a decade, but if teachers are not feeling that their voices are being heard, we are undermining the profession. 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