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Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut - Couverture souple

Howard, Ryan

 
9781583676134: Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1583676139 ISBN 13 : 9781583676134
Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2017

Synopsis

That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmart's owners, the Waltons, have been turning public schools into corporate mills. Their top-down programs, such as Common Core State Standards, track, judge, and homogenize the minds of millions of American students from kindergarten through high school. But corporate funders would not be able to implement this educational control without the de facto partnership of government at all levels, channeling public moneys into privatization initiatives, school closings, and high-stakes testing that discourages independent thinking.

Educational Justice offers hope that there's still time to take on corporatized schools and achieve democratic justice in the classroom. Forcefully written by educator and journalist Howard Ryan, with contributing authors, the book opens with four chapters that discuss theories on teacher unionism, social justice pedagogy, and corporate school reform. These chapters are balanced with four case-study chapters documenting exemplary teaching and school-site organizing practices in the field. Reports from various educational fronts include innovative union strategies against charter school expansion, as well as teaching visions drawn from the vibrant "whole language" movement. Bold, informative, clearly reasoned, this book is an education in itself--a democratic one at that.

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À propos de l'auteur

Howard Ryan has taught college English, worked for many years in union organizing and representation in higher education, as well as in labor journalism. Now retired, he writes and organizes for quality education in public schools.

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Éditeur
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1583676139
ISBN 13 
9781583676134
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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