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When test scores fall or attendance drops, we repeat the refrain that schools are failing. The response is always the same: more accountability and tighter pacing are needed, more assessments, fewer “distractions.” We double down on standardized testing and compliance, then act surprised when students feel less connected, teachers feel more constrained and families are further marginalized. In this context, schools matter more than ever as places that model democratic participation.
Author Archives: Heather Kliever
Heather Kliever is a middle school teacher, a Chetco/Tututni enrolled with the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, and a doctoral student in the University of Oregon’s Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education program. She writes from classrooms and communities where literacy and democracy are practiced daily.