What We Must Do

EdReform 10.0 – What We Must Do

Invite Education Reform People and Organizations to Engage in EdReform 10.0

To effect true and lasting change, we must to do more than wait for people to come to our offices, join our staffs, or run for office. We must start a revolution with new advocates! If we want to change the conversation of education reform to focus on the vision of flexibility, innovation, and freedom, we must partner with like-minded organizations to expand the breadth of our reach. It is our mission to reinforce the importance of a unified vision of urgency around action-oriented education reform policy and legislation.

Convene and Communicate Often

We will unite EdReform 10.0 signers and potential participants around weekly conversations online and at on the ground events that support our mission and collectively help participants advance policy efforts. We intend to leverage the media to build momentum, attract new advocates, and work with our partners to solve problems together.

Prepare our Next Generation of Education Reformers

The necessity for true historical perspective has been made clear repeatedly in the space of education reform. The largest impediment to lasting, structural educational improvement beyond knowing the opponents of rigorous standards, quality school choice options, and educational accountability is the lack of knowledge of the people, ideas, and progress, that have created the momentum to improve educational legislation for our children. We commit to educating our next generation of reformers and arming them with the historical knowledge necessary to actively support positive change.

To that end, CER is making available its unique EdReform University platform to engage leaders and provide collaborative training and education programs. Our technology has helped us to enable thousands of “students” to enroll and participate in courses synchronously and asynchronously and gain access to a repository reflecting years of history. These lessons about the people and actions that have made reform possible are critical in helping us to advance shared reform agendas.

Call on Funders to Support our Vision

We call on influential and active supporters of our collective efforts and on new contributors, to share and join our commitment. Our vision requires funders willing to take risks, to understand that reform is often organic, and that our collective efforts cannot succeed without your involvement and well-founded trust.