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Create and foster a student-centered learning culture. These are the change agents we need to reform education, not those individuals or groups that have no vested interest or experience working with students in a publicschool. Consistently model life-long learning, especially during the summer months.
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Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of publicschools. They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.”
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