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Deborah Meier is founder of a network of highly successful public schools in East Harlem and the Mission Hill School in Boston, and author of The Power of Their Ideas and In Schools We Trust.
The intellectual demands of the 21st century, as well as the demands of democratic life, are best met by preserving plural definitions of a good education.
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