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From the desk of Kimberly Craft on Wednesday, July 23rd 2008 at 14:26

WELCOME

Participants at the recent Tucson Town Hall identified education as the foremost challenge facing our community. Employers routinely complain that high school, and even college graduates who apply for jobs come to the workforce unprepared in the most rudimentary skills. Teachers feel stressed about unending testing and having to forego "frills" like art and physical education. A new discipline at the collegiate level seeks to translate academic jargon into language regular people can understand, and apply to the real world.

At the same time, visits to the classroom yield a wealth of caring, dedicated and innovative teachers and students creating rich learning environments, often with limited resources.

We wonder what's going on, and how can we improve our educational system? I invite you to ponder those questions, and use this space to begin the discussion about the state of education in Arizona.

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