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EDUCATION IS LOSING ITS CONNECTION WITH KIDS AND THE FUTURE

The cure may now be out of reach, but that cure has nothing to do with ideology or curricula.

I was an English and History teacher for many years. My life went another direction, but I still feel that my teaching was the most important work I have done.

Most the kids I taught were open and had a spark about something. There were some that had suffered so much at home that…