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We must address the education access gap

by Doug Mann, 11 Feb 2005  (Letter to the Minneapolis NAACP branch)

Amend the Minneapolis school desegregation plan!

by Doug Mann, 11 Feb 2005

Minneapolis Public Schools: Roots of the crisis & a way out of it

by Doug Mann,  23 October 2004

Another Option for Minneapolis School Board Voters

by Doug Mann, 29 Oct 2004

Submitted to the Star-Tribune for publication on 28 October 2004

Opening Statement, 2002 School Board Candidates forum

By Doug Mann, - MPS strategic goals are, on paper,  'closing the gap' & improving the quality of instruction / education, but district leaders have chosen ineffective strategies and inefficient processes.

Eight proposals to 'close the gap'

2 June 2004.

Evidence that School policies matter (2002)

Platform (How to fix the school system) (2002)

I accuse the Minneapolis School board of crimes & cover-ups

by Doug Mann, 28 August 2004

Minneapolis Public Schools & the new anti-Civil Rights movement

by Doug Mann, 6 July 2004

Education reforms have been widening the gap

Doug Mann, 24 April 2004, text of message to mpls issues list

     In my opinion the local Democratic Party has been making a mess of the Minneapolis Public Schools because the Democratic party, locally and nationally, has been making concessions to, enabling, and increasingly identifying with a right-wing school reform movement supported by the Republican Party at the national level since the early 1980s.

Falling enrollment // Firing bad teachers

-from Minneapolis Issues List discussion-by Doug Mann, 8 August 2004

"Unlearning racism" but not closing the racial learning gap?

by Doug Mann, 27 May 2004 - How can one explain the huge racial learning gap in a town where just about all the whites say they are not racists or that they are racists but are trying to unlearn racism?

Re: "Unlearning racism," but not closing the racial learning gap?

by Doug Mann, 28, May 2004 - Can we know the nature of school reforms by the results they produce?

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Posts to the Minneapolis Issues List by Doug Mann

Scores of writings generated as part of the debate over  K-12 Education Policy on the Minneapolis Issues list