Building a New Reality

More Voice. More Choice. More Responsibility.

Ted Wachtel

Community Processing

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To ensure that the negative spiral of public opinion could be broken, she insisted on a “bottom-up” process, so that all stakeholders were directly involved, in a way that allowed everyone to participate in and to observe the process.

Deliberative Polling

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While it is unlikely that we will choose our legislatures by lottery anytime in the foreseeable future, greater use of Deliberative Polling can move governance toward true representation.

The Lottocratic Alternative

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Guerrero’s single-issue legislature offers another way that states and nations can experiment with an alternative to elected legislatures and try innovative variations, using single-issue legislatures for certain issues, without changing everything.

Compulsory Education

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Whichever subject content or teaching method or evaluation tool I chose, I still faced the same dilemma: I could not get kids who didn’t want to learn something to learn it.

Skating Away

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The problem, as I see it, is that we have come to confuse learning with schooling. We think that the only way people can be educated is by attending school.

Learning

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We salute those who enjoy school learning and thrive in schools, but many do not thrive. We must challenge the status quo and rethink what’s best for all of our children.