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Release from the Society for Quality Education
Renowned U.S. educator Dr. Howard Fuller makes 3-day visit to Toronto
TORONTO , Ont. – January 7, 2008
Dr. Howard Fuller, of Milwaukee’s Marquette University Institute of Transformation of Learning, will be in Toronto on a three-day speaking tour (January 7 to 9) to propose provocative free-market oriented ideas to reform Ontario’s education system.
“The former superintendent of Milwaukee’s public schools, Dr. Fuller is renowned in the United States for his unending support for reforms which encourage educational competition and which permit low-income parents to choose their schools,” says Doretta Wilson, executive director of the Society for Quality Education, which is sponsoring Fuller’s tour.
“The question of educational choice is extremely topical right now,” says Wilson, who points out the recent controversy in Toronto over a proposed alternative Africentric school has focused debate on whether parents should have more of a say in how their children are educated.
During his stay in Toronto, Fuller is scheduled to address the Economic Club of Toronto, The Fraser Institute, and various community groups.
He will be available for media interviews.
In a recent article, Dr. Fuller made the following comment:
“Consider the impact of putting the right kind of parental choice in the hands of families who have little or no power because they control no resources, no levers of influence over the decisions and decision-making process that impacts their children’s education. Consider how this power may change the shape of the future for their children. And consider how the absence of this power may mean their children will be trapped in schools that more affluent parents who oppose choice would never tolerate for their own children.”
The Society for Quality Education is dedicated to the significant improvement of student learning in Canada . We invite the public to visit our web-site at www.societyforqualityeducation.org to learn more.
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