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Silent lunches: how do we get to educational reform in the US?

“As you well know, there is a lot of inequality in American schools and schooling… and a whole emphasis on standardised tests, especially in schools of the kids of the poor.”

By Lynda Stone
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Lynda Stone spoke at the “John Dewey’s “Democracy and Education” 100 Years On” conference at the University of Cambridge, 2016. This is transcribed from her 15-minute talk.

“I don’t want to be the hopeless one. I want to talk about the process in the context of the US today. But I would say there is no toxicity around Dewey in the US today because there is no Dewey, nor much discourse or practise of democracy – such an irony in this wonderful conference…

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