37. Why Involve Your Community At All?

Jack Schneider joins us from UMass-Amherst to talk about what community members have to offer local schools beyond tax dollars, and what schools have to offer community members beyond test scores (to coin a phrase). You can email him with follow-ups, as he offers in the episode.We talked about an article ("In Praise of Ordinary Measures") on the show, so here is that resource, and here are a few other pieces we've collaborated on over the past several years."Democracy in Action" (2023) American School Board JournalEducational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA (2023). National Education Policy Center"Are Locally Elected School Boards Really Failing? (2022). Education Next