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VIDEO: Gabrieli on Expanded Learning Time
Chris Gabrieli, founder of Mass 2020, spoke at our forum about Expanded Learning Time on July 22, 2009. Videos courtesy of NewTV. Here are two 10-minute clips of his talk… PART 1 PART 2
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On Aug. 26, Newton 20/20 and Citizens for the Future of Newton co-sponsored a forum for the five Mayoral candidates to discuss the findings and recommendations of the Citizens Advisory Group. The two-hour forum discussion covered five questions. Each question was addressed to a different candidate, with followup responses by each of the others and [...]
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- I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education. --Thomas Jefferson
- The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can. -- John Gardner
- The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. --James Madison
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First, I would like to share with TAB readers an e-mail I circulated to the participating members of the Citizen Advisory Group. Here it is: “Having now read the “A Summing Up” document produced by the CAG recently, I just wanted to take a moment to say to each and every one of you what [...]
The 2008 Long Range Facilities Plan for our elementary schools represents hard work on the part of our school committee and the consultants, HMFH, who produced the plan. But unless some additional work goes into it now, we risk traversing the wrong school building path, yet again. The plan followed two directives that are likely [...]
