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Still at Risk?

This next year marks 26 years "since the publication of the U.S. Department of Education's explosive report A Nation at Risk. Its powerful indictment of American education launched the largest education-reform movement in the nation's history, paving the way for strategies as different as charter schools and the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. But even after a vast political and financial investment spanning two and a half decades, we're far from achieving the report's ambitious aims."

The article goes on to say "schools are complex social enterprises; their success depends on thousands of daily personal interactions. They are, in the end, only as good as the people in them and the culture in which those people work. So it's crucial to get everyone in a school community invested in a school's mission."

Master Mind groups are one way to deal with these complexitites and get everyone involved in the school mission.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/133846/page/1