Resisting reform : reclaiming public education through grassroots activism

This book is a poignant celebration of grassroots empowerment as our contributors, people who just a short time ago thought of themselves as ordinary citizens, document their call to action when their children and their profession are on the line. Practicing teachers and parents who see the direct i...

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Other Authors VanSlyke-Briggs, Kjersti (Editor), Bloom, Elizabeth A., 1963- (Editor), Boudet, Danielle (Editor), Ohanian, Susan (writer of afterword.)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2015]
Subjects
Educational change > United States.
Education > Aims and objectives > United States.
Education and state > United States.
Education > Political aspects > United States.
Public schools > United States.
Education > Aims and objectives.
Education and state.
Education > Political aspects.
Educational change.
Public schools.
United States.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational strategies and policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806611430
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-083-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Kris Nielsen. Introduction, forewarned is forearmed / Elizabeth Bloom. Section 1, one voice makes a difference: Reclaiming our courage to teach / Kenneth Sider
  • Tests of patience, pedagogy, and pragmatism / Andrew Gitner
  • The imperative to protect, perspectives from a parent educator / Bianca Tanis
  • The fight to reclaim student and teacher voice in public education / Wendy Everard
  • Data-nonsense, why education should not be data-driven / Katie Zahedi
  • Section 1, points for discussion. Section 2, coordinating a community: From resistance to advocacy to activism, a teacher's journey / Elizabeth Lynch
  • Cultivating opportunities, growing activists / Danielle Boudet
  • For the sake of my children / Stacey Serdy
  • The hero is you / Julie Cavanagh
  • Reclaiming our public schools / Sara Wottawa
  • Section 2, points for discussion. Section 3, challenging the state: From teacher leader to political leader / Carol Mikoda
  • Walking the talk, the present is the future / Julie Gorlewski
  • Dr. Chief-of-staff is calling / Nancy Bloom
  • Defending our children's education / Eric Mihelbergel
  • Section 3, points for discussion. Section 4, putting a nation on notice: The education of edushyster, a comedy / Jennifer Berkshire
  • Badass teachers, fighting for education in the age of corporate reform / Marla Kilfoyle and Melissa Tomlinson
  • Compelled to speak, one student's story / Ankur Singh
  • Harnessing the smart mob, using social media to enact change / Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs
  • Section 4, points for discussion. Afterword. about the editors. Index.

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