Teachers Submit Education Reform Ideas To Duncan Via VIVA Project

Valerie Strauss wrote in a blog for the Washington Post (2/2), "More than 150 public school teachers from 27 states, seeking to get their voices heard by education policymakers in this let's-bash-teachers era, collaborated to devise solutions to problems that most affect their profession. They wrote their conclusions in a paper called 'Voices From the Classroom,' and then, in a town where such reports are constantly released and then forgotten, they got to do something unusual: present them to Education Secretary Arne Duncan." According to Strauss, "The effort is called the VIVA Project -- Voices, Ideas, Vision, Action -- which was created to give classroom teachers a chance to share ideas and take a role in making state and national policy decisions involving public schools."