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First Amendment Schools 
Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 05:37:34 AM EST
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is the focus of a new book by Sam Chaltain, National Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. Sam previously worked with the First Amendment Schools Project, an experience that helped shaped this book. He is also founding director of the Five Freedoms Project, which is a community educators, students and citizens committed to First Amendment Freedoms, democratic schools, and the idea that students should be seen and heard (and of which I am a member).
American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community has a Foreword by former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor - herself long committed to a revitalization of civic education - and is valuable both as something to read to provoke one's thinking, and as a resource for further exploration of the topic, especially for anyone concerned about preparing our students to learn to be citizens of a democracy.
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