An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution

Anglický jazyk

An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2014
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 234 x 156 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781623969325

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O knihe

This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists interested in
reclaiming our public schools and reclaiming the public narrative around education
policy. The book infuses research about the recent history of education policy reform, the
strategies United Opt Out uses for fighting back against these policies, and proposes
solutions that work to create sustainable, equitable, anti-racist, democratic and
meaningful public education. This book is for anyone interested in an "insider's look"
behind the scene of forming an organization, or leading a resistance. Simultaneously the book provides scholarly-based
research about the broader issues, policies and data around education reform, and the opt out movement.
Education policy has been heating up ever since NCLB but especially since the roll out of Race to The Top and the
Common Core State Standards. Nationally publicized debates and discord over these policies are garnering public attention
of teachers, parents, and whole communities. We hope this book will add to the library of other recent books such as
Mercedes Schneider's A Chronicle of Echoes (2014), Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error (2013) and Bowers & Thomas (eds)
Detesting and Degrading Schools (2012), that have exposed the complex corporate interest in shaping education policies
and the destructive influence such policies will have on our children and on our democracy. This book uses first person
narratives infused with research and scholarship, to create personalized accounts into the life of education activism. Each
chapter includes an Activists Handbook section to provide support for our activist/
readers in their own efforts. We hope that our experiences will inspire others to take
this charge upon themselves as well.