A B O U T
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of education.
HORACE MANN
Our Misson
To start a national conversation.
To grow a revolution.
To build our common purpose.
The field of knowledge is the common property of all mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
What the best and wisest parent wants for his child must be what the community wants for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon,
it destroys our democracy.
JOHN DEWEY
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and must be willing to bear the expenses of it.
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JOHN ADAMS
To start a national conversation
Our mission is to start a national conversation about the civil rights issue of our time.
This advocacy was born out of the determination to shake America from its infantile care of the human mind. We must acknowledge the tremendous loss to an individual, a society, and the human species when a single mind is unable to reach its full potential. We are guided by the words of psychologist Abraham Maslow:
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“What a person can be, they must be.”
Every American generation has had their conversation. Americans have conversed about abolitionism, women’s rights, labor rights, civil rights, and gay rights. We now have the obligation to talk about our right to know.
To grow a revolution
Our conversation aims to spark three revolutions:
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A revolution of American public education. The equalizing of the most unequal education system in the developed world.
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A revolution of American society. The building of a new, elevated and equitable foundation upon which all future American societies are built.
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Continuing the Enlightenment. The spreading of reason and scientific literacy to all, not just an elite few, and continuing the expansion of declared natural rights.
To build our common purpose
America's collective act of revolutionizing public education will create our nation's vital common purpose.
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America does not have the luxury of being held together by any tribal or ethnic glue like most other nations. Our diverse, continent-sized nation requires a common purpose to keep us from fracturing apart.
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Our common purpose is our dedication to the proposition that "all are created equal." Revolutionizing our public education system is this generation's best effort to reaffirm our founding principles while we also "mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
Who We Are
Concerned citizens. The same as you.
Yes, I am an idealist. That’s how I know I’m an American.
WOODROW WILSON
What We Do
Educate. Empower. Engage.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants.
What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Educate.
To start a conversation, we produce informative materials to educate Americans with the knowledge of the problems of the American education system and viable solutions.
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“The most significant act in life is… simply to observe accurately the world around you. Collecting the facts is a revolutionary act. [It] is perhaps the most subversive action possible.”
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GEORGE ORWELL, 1984
Empower.
We then empower citizens with the skills to bring the solutions into action and make effective change. We know of America's overwhelming will to make change, we offer the how to make change.
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Central to the success of the Civil Rights Movement was the dedication to the education and training of activists. At Dorchester Academy in Georgia, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) established Citizen Education Workshops where thousands were trained in the philosophies, strategies, methods, and tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience and campaign building. The newly-empowered leaders returned to their hometowns to lead well-planned and executed campaigns of their own. The success of the Civil Rights Movement can be owed to this often overlooked dedication.
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Our advocacy seeks to establish a virtual Dorchester. To seed the nation with empowered leaders willing and capable to plan and execute campaigns in their own hometowns and school districts.
Engage.
We aim to for educated and empowered leaders to engage their communities and take action. To get into “good trouble.” To take action aimed at achieving small, winnable goals. To win victories that galvanize support and move the American public from a state of apathy, to sympathy, to zealotry.
History proves that small, winnable campaigns are effective at rousing the conscious of the nation and bringing the larger national goal--in this case, a federal right to education--within reach.
Our logo
A rising sun
The sun that serves as our advocacy's logo comes from a special time and place in American history--the very instant of our birth.
On September 17, 1787, the the Constitutional Convention convened for their final meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. The purpose was to sign their name to the document they had painstakingly composed over the preceding four months. As the delegates were signing, Benjamin Franklin drew notice to the distinguished high-backed mahogany chair occupied by George Washington, the president of the Convention. The chair featured a half-sunburst on its crest.​
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“I have, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that [sun on the chair] behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: but now at length,
I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun.”
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