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"Powered Up," Vicki Phillips Strikes Portland

Vicki Phillips
Vicki Phillips
Council of The Great City Schools
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Yet if her talk were a dessert, it would be a meringue: little substance and a lot of fluff.
"On the one hand, stories like mine are really inspirational," she said.
a guru named "DK" whom Phillips invited to Portland
popular,
clear what it means.
"We have to power up education," she told them.
move away from small schools.
inside the classroom,
"High school is not high enough," she said.
shouldn't be asked to learn "less and less about more and more."
"Learning cannot remain powered up if teaching remains powered down," she said.
one person out of hundreds stood to give Phillips an ovation.

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