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Educate Together - some history

robindch · 2011-07-14 22:38:17

Michael Johnston, one of the people involved in setting up the Dalkey School Project, the country's first Educate Together school, was granted an honorary doctorate by TCD last week. In the following article, he talks about how and why the school was set up:…

14-07-2011 10:38pm

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Michael Johnston, one of the people involved in setting up the Dalkey School Project, the country's first Educate Together school, was granted an honorary doctorate by TCD last week. In the following article, he talks about how and why the school was set up:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/ireland/micheal-johnston-and-the-dalkey-school-project-are-honoured-59014.html

Interesting to see that 30 years ago, 75% of people polled wanted unaligned schools and 20% wanted the current system. I wonder what these figures would be now, if an honest, accurate poll were to be carried out?

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