A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

An Invitation

It begins in as many ways as there are communities in America. But the movement for educational excellence often begins with one person -- someone who sees a problem and has the guts to stand up and say, "Our children aren't learning enough. What are we going to do about it?" Or, "There are schools like ours doing much better. We can do it, too."

You may be that person in your community.

You can't do it alone, of course. You'll need key allies -- people who can awaken your community's desire to see that every child gets a world-class education.

GOALS 2000 can help.

It's the first new federal education law to pass in years. But GOALS 2000 is more than a piece of legislation.

It's an invitation to teachers, parents, and citizens to stop doing business as usual. It's an invitation to imagine what is possible.

Picture your community reaching the National Education Goals. Picture your school district and the entire community helping every school reinvent itself for one purpose: to move all children toward world-class levels of learning. What would it take to make that happen?

GOALS 2000 offers a framework for answering that question. It also provides new flexibility -- and possibly seed money -- for your community and schools to devise comprehensive plans for action. But you don't have to start from scratch.

[Picture a Community]

[Build on Existing Efforts]