<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Albert Shanker </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">President, American Federation of Teachers</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>1990</b> [<i>New York Times</i>]</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><b><i>The Concord Review</i> deserves support</b>—and contributing a subscription to a local school library might be a good way of showing it. <b>It is also worth thinking about as we consider how to reform our education system. </b>As we’ve known for a long time, factory workers who never saw the completed product and worked on only a small part of it soon became bored and demoralized, But when they were allowed to see the whole process—or better yet become involved in it—<b>productivity and morale improved</b>.<b><i> </i></b></font></span></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Students are no different. When we chop up the work they do into little bits—history facts and vocabulary and grammar rules to be learned—it’s no wonder that they are bored and disengaged. </font></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The achievement of <i>The Concord Review</i>’s authors offers a different model of learning. Maybe it’s time for us to take it seriously. </font></b></span></p><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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