We can promote community and parental involvement in public schools. We can insist on a more robust role for teachers and support staff in organizing their schools for high performance. We can be the champions of school reform measures such as smaller class sizes that our members know will work. But we cannot meet big challenges with small ideas. This is not a matter of repudiating our past, but building upon it.
Some organizations change the name of what they're doing, but they go on doing the same old things.
This is called clinical insanity. We are about deeds, not words. Just as you have made a major investment in your Great Schools initiative, NEA has made a major investment in our new quality agenda. We now hold every NEA program accountable to those priorities. How NEA Members Are Revitalizing America's Public Schools.