Education
Local Community Education, Everywhere
With global education funding under severe strain, volunteer-based approaches to community-led education offer a cost-effective and sustainable model for progress.
With global education funding under severe strain, volunteer-based approaches to community-led education offer a cost-effective and sustainable model for progress.
Neoliberalism has set the agenda for US public education for decades, championing values of individual choice, standards, and competition—with disappointing results. Amid rising civic discord, is there a different vision for public education that would better prepare young people to become citizens and improve our democratic health? | Open access to this article is made possible by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.