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Teacher cooperatives: what happens when teachers run the school?(feature)
Cris Parr stands in a sunny room in an old high school surveying rows of drill presses, saws, and other outmoded industrial behe moths. Clearly no one has taught shop here in a long time, not since the goal was to prepare kids from the struggling neighborhood outside for a life in the trades.
Parr would like someone to haul the machines away so she can replace them with drafting tables configured for computer-aided design. In most high schools, this would be the principal's problem, or something for facilities management. She's a teacher, but it's very much her responsibility to change this room full of curios into a place that graduates kids ready for a ...
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