Our fundamental approach to public education in America today has been more or less the same in the nearly 400 years since the first public school was established in Boston. Despite tremendous growth and change — the rise of charter schools and the proliferation of technology-enhanced learning are just two recent examples — the ideology and practice of public education has continuously centered on schools. Particulars aside, the idea of school as the sole place and time where young people learn dominates our collective understanding of what public education is and can do.
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