Ideas from University Presidents
- Create a common discourse on the proper ends of education, based on what forms a good and just society and balances both individual and community interests.
- Re-commit to the spirit of Mendez and Brown specifically by affirming that schools are central to society and specifically that segregation is bad. It is important to emphasize that “the co-mingling of the entire student body instills and develops the attitude of a common culture among all school children which is imperative for the perpetuation of American institution and ideals.”
- Ensure accountability at all levels and make its application useful and appropriate rather than punitive and mechanistic.
- Continue at all levels to believe in the importance of teachers and to champion investment in teacher education.
Persist to educate the public on the importance of access and retention in public education and of public funding. Persistently informing the public includes enacting initiatives that value education or monitoring those initiatives that place the cost of education on the backs of our students.
Roundtable Lead Dr. Tessa Martínez-Pollack Our Lady of the Lake University
