Despite the common goal of improving student achievement, education organizations are often split over the best approach to improving public education. This divergence masks the reality of the situation, that regardless of the school and the approach it embraces, each school has enrolled students for the purpose of learning.
If everyone is truly working in the interest of students, once students are enrolled in schools, it would seem that mutual collaboration across different camps might highlight and enable cooperation in addressing similar challenges. An organization such as the Charter Schools Development Center which provides technical support to charter schools may differ in philosophy from the Coalition of Essential Schools, which emphasizes the development and sustainability of equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools. Yet they both highly value the dissemination of knowledge to their schools and probably face similar challenges in keeping information fresh, relevant, and protected from copying. Given the dearth of resources to devote to knowledge dissemination, working together to address such issues may result in stronger processes and tools for both organizations, and ultimately better practices toward the education of each student.
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