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A call for a New Rules community platform centered on education and public schools

Schools ARE a center of their communities, they don’t need to "become." The fact that the schools are struggling is so outrageous precisely because it affects the daily lives (as well as future) of a huge number of people, and a cross-section of the community.

School Sidecar.jpgI wrote about the issue of Silicon Valley’s terrible public schools earlier this year. I got some great responses on the subject. But Dan Gillmor berated me for berating Silicon Valley. "Berating doesn’t work," he told me at a recent event.

Well, not berating Silicon Valley doesn’t work either then, at least it makes me feel better, if nothing else.

But I also realized that there is a lot of work being done by leading Silicon Valley companies such as Cisco, Sun, HP and many others, around the subject of education. And they all seem worthy projects, yet the results of all that do-gooding are hard to find.

Here’s my take for a "new rules" philanthropic education effort, (and it means we ditch the non-profit company approach, even if it means losing that tax deduction, I’ll explain.)

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcher

Full Story: http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/08/a_call_for_a_ne_1.php

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