But if she's right, and if Oprah can examine the successes of something like the Algebra Project or Detroit Summer--both built on the model of the freedom schools of the civil rights movement--then perhaps we can move beyond the realm of midday talk shows into something much more substantive: a sustainable movement that will remake our schools for the better.
But we are the party that is best placed to bring about genuine meaningful, useful reform, of our Health and Education services, after all we supported Tony Blair on what he was doing in Education last year, to give some measure of greater freedom to schools.
She said that her party's plans to give schools more freedom from local education authorities would mean schools would receive their total budgets, instead of finding some of their money was being held back by LEAs .
Tory policy was to back setting in key subjects but to allow schools freedom to stream pupils in a group of other classes such as geography, a spokesman said.
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If parents are given the freedom to choose the schools that work best for their children and teachers are given the freedom to teach in ways they know work, our kids will vault to the top of the global class.
The new academies and trust schools will have the freedom to develop as independent but non-fee-paying schools, with outside partners like businesses, universities and charities able to sponsor and run them.
We are giving schools more freedom over the curriculum and teaching - not less.
LEAs, traditional bastions of bureaucratic left-wing power, giving schools more freedom to manage their own affairs.
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The Education Secretary, Estelle Morris, said the Bill would give schools the freedom they needed to "innovate in exciting new ways".
The letter was also signed by the Association of Colleges, the Independent Academies Association, the Principals Professional Council and the Freedom and Autonomy for Schools National Association.
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It is due to set up a panel of experts later in the autumn to review the curriculum and has pledged to give schools more freedom over what they teach.
But FIT said more concerning was the situation for academies and new free schools, which are exempt from government regulations that govern mainstream schools' freedom to sell off their playing fields.
Charter schools have the freedom to hire whom they want, and for this school, being young and enthusiastic counts for a lot.
In fact, parental freedom is forcing Milwaukees public schools to reform.
The study confirms that the new curriculum for excellence is unusual in that individual schools have immense freedom, deciding on what subjects they teach, course content and design.
Teachers will have more freedom to discipline pupils in schools, former members of the armed forces will be offered funding to retrain as teachers, and there will be new aptitude tests for the profession.
The draft admissions codes published earlier this month will give popular schools, including grammar schools, greater freedom to increase the number of places they are able to offer, without consultation or permission from local authority.
"Councils want to intervene more quickly, but decades of giving schools 'greater freedom' and 'protecting' them from council interference means that local authorities now have very indirect and bureaucratic ways to tackle poor performance, " he said.
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Only with true freedom of choice will we get schools that do the job they should.
And now, under the coalition's academy programme, schools or groups of schools will have more freedom to vary their days and terms.
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Mr Twigg criticised the education secretary for allowing free schools and academies the freedom to employ staff who do not have qualified teacher status.
"We didn't think it was right to exclude from that greater freedom the small number of selective schools that there are in the system, " he added.
I'm all in favour of grammar schools where they exist and indeed I think schools should have the freedom to select if necessary, on the basis of academic ability.
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Under the government's plans schools will be given greater freedom to spend money instead of having to target funding at certain subjects.
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As semi-independent schools, academies have the freedom to set their own curriculum.
Charter schools have been successful because they offer freedom to shape the school to the pupils, rather than the other way round.
Free schools are funded from the public education budget but the schools are run independently and have the freedom to create their own curriculum.
Those who have children in faith schools have said any charges would impinge on the freedom to practise their religion.
They say most of the powers they have to intervene in underperforming schools can be used only once Ofsted has put a school into a "failing" category and that they have less freedom than the trusts which run academies to intervene in struggling schools.
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