Launch Georgia K-12 Education on the ‘Seven Cs”
posted 3 years ago on September 14th, 2015
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This op-ed by Jim Kelly, a Senior Fellow at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, was published in the September 4-10, 2015, edition of the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
By Jim Kelly
As Gov. Nathan Deal’s Education Reform Commission approaches the release of its first round of draft proposals, now is a good time to focus on some overarching principles for improving K-12 education in Georgia. Otherwise, detailed prescriptions for more equitable education funding, student performance, and teacher recruitment, retention and compensation will fail for a lack of attention to seven essential elements of effective education: creed, competence, curriculum, character, community, compassion and choice.
Among the standard definitions of the word “creed” is “a set of beliefs or aims that guide someone’s…
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