Opportunity to Learn Campaign Means Opportunity to Succeed
The National Opportunity to Learn Campaign, headquartered in Boston, is sponsored by the Schott Family Foundation. This is an important effort to attract community agencies to coordinate efforts to change the learning experience of children who live in poverty and/or who experience ongoing acute crises.
The byword - achievement gap - has come to imply that failure to learn is the fault of a student, a teacher or a principal, or all of these. Opportunity to Learn implies that the community and the federal government have responsibilities to our children. If we could only minimize testing and maximize the opportunities for our children to have adequate food, health care, and teachers trained to listen as well as teach our children who live in poverty, we would turn around education in our country today.
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