Education and Capitalism

by Bale, Jeff; Knopp, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781608461479
• ISBN10: 1608461475
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-17
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public education by corporate board room "reformers."

Author Biography

Sarah Knopp is a public high school teacher in Los Angeles and an activist with United Teachers Los Angeles. Jeff Bale is assistant professor of second language education at Michigan State University. Their Work has appeared in Rethinking Schools, the International Socialist Review, and CounterPunch.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface A Defense of Public Education and an Action Plan for Change	p. 1
Schools, Marxism, and Liberation	p. 9
The Struggle for Black Education	p. 41
Focus on: The Indian Boarding Schools	p. 70
Linguistic Justice at School	p. 77
Obama's Neoliberal Agenda for Public Education	p. 109
Focus on: Students, Parents, and Teachers Nationwide Protest Gutting of Public Education	p. 135
Teachers' Unions and Social Justice	p. 141
Focus on: The Madison Protests	p. 176
Focus on: Teachers' Struggle in Oaxaca, Mexico	p. 182
Pedagogy and Revolution: Reading Freire in Context	p. 187
Focus on: The Freedom Schools	p. 211
Literacy and Revolution	p. 217
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 275
About the Authors	p. 285
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