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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My changes would be…
1) banning social promotion and failure of state exams -&gt; re-entering the current class you are in
2) Cell phone bans
3) top down redesign of curriculum. More IB programs. Foreign language in elementary school and required every year until high school. Better health and wellness instruction in PE. 
4) dismantling funding towards STEAM programs. More lab-based science classes in high school with required lab reports. Complete redesign of certain science curricula (physics, looking at you)
5) research-based history education in middle school. Teach students to evaluate historic documents and whether a source is credible or not
6) disempower parental rights groups from the classroom, particularly books. Average parent knows squat above education.
7) Bring back lost G&T programs, take notes of what works from the magnet school mode
8) Bring Back In School Suspension and make it a mark against promotion to the next grade
9) rework the canon. Some things are working (Of Mice and Men, The Alchemist, The Great Gatsby, Antigone, Fahrenheit 451- note the prevalence of American literature and how students engage with it) Some things are not working (Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, dismissing important writers like Shelley, Walker, and some male authors to get the boys more excited, also this guy named Shakespeare, get him out)[/quote]
+1, bring back consequences and update the curriculum as teachers have been pleading for decades.[/quote]

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