Wednesday, May 9, 2007

NYC Public School Youth Survey...

Please spread far and wide!

New York City youth aged 14-21 are needed to fill out a quick online opinion poll about NYC public schools.

This ain’t no mayor’s survey- it was created by youth to ask other youth about the real deal on schooling in NYC. Speak up and contribute to a redesign of the NYC school system. www.ncscatfordham.org/surveywiz

Why do we have to compete for things that we actually have rights to in our schools?

Why is it that I know the changes that need to be made in my school but the power to make these changes is totally out of my hands?

Since January 2007, the Youth Researchers for a New Education System have been working together to do research on school control and the purpose of schooling.
Part of a larger city-wide effort to redesign schools to be based on human rights, this participatory action research project seeks to understand what schools would look like if they were about collaboration, not control and competition.

Our goal is to get 1000 surveys by May 30th, 2007- and you can help! Just pass this link on to every NYC based youth, teacher, youth organizer/educator and parent you know!

www.ncscatfordham.org/surveywiz

For more information, contact the Youth Researchers for a New Education System at yrnes07@gmail.com