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Deborah Meier

Deborah Meier is founder of a network of highly successful public schools in East Harlem and the Mission Hill School in Boston, and author of The Power of Their Ideas and In Schools We Trust

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The intellectual demands of the 21st century, as well as the demands of democratic life, are best met by preserving plural definitions of a good education.

Deborah Meier

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I appreciate Danielle Allen’s essay on the complicated topic of education and democracy—not to mention what we might mean by democracy. Democracy has dropped out of sight in most of the discourse...
Deborah Meier
Richard Kahlenberg and Bernard Wasow build a pleasingly tight case against the usual argument for vouchers: that above all they improve test scores for the individuals involved. But I worry that their...
Deborah Meier
I recently came across a speech by Joseph Priestley given on the dedication of New College, in London, in 1794: Whatever be the qualifications of your tutors, your improvement must chiefly depend...
Deborah Meier

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