An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution

United Opt Out's Test of Courage (HC)

218 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists interested inreclaiming our public schools and reclaiming the public narrative around educationpolicy. The book infuses research about the recent history of education policy reform, thestrategies United Opt Out uses for fighting back against these policies, and proposessolutions that work to create sustainable, equitable, anti-racist, democratic andmeaningful 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-basedresearch 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 theCommon Core State Standards. Nationally publicized debates and discord over these policies are garnering public attentionof teachers, parents, and whole communities. We hope this book will add to the library of other recent books such asMercedes 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 policiesand the destructive influence such policies will have on our children and on our democracy. This book uses first personnarratives infused with research and scholarship, to create personalized accounts into the life of education activism. Eachchapter 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 takethis charge upon themselves as well.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781623969332
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.12.2014
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Information Age Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Peggy Robertson, Rosemarie Jensen, Morna McDermott