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9780807750896

Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City

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    9780807750896

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    0807750891

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-06-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr

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Summary

In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Center-a writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schools-takes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools. The book builds on the powerful stories of marginalized youth and their teachers who contest the policies that are destructive to their communities: decentralization, charter schools, market-based educational choice, teachers union-busting, mixed-income housing, and urban redevelopment. Striking commentaries from the foremost scholars of the day explore the wider implications of these stories for pedagogy and educational policy in schools across the United States and the globe. Most importantly, this book reveals what must be done to challenge oppressive conditions and democratize our schools by troubling the vision of city elites who seek to elide students’ histories, privatize their schools, and reinvent their neighborhoods.

Author Biography

Kristen L. Buras is assistant professor of urban education and reform at Emory University. Jim Randels is a veteran public school teacher, founder of Students at the Center, and executive vice president of United Teachers of New Orleans. Kalamu ya Salaam is a writer and producer who co-directs Students at the Center, including its digital media work through Neo-Griot Productions.

Table of Contents

Forward!: On the Freedom Dreams of Young Race Rebelsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Counterstories on Pedagogy and Policy Making: Coming of Age in the Privatized Cityp. 1
Scorching the Earth Isn't the Way: New Orleans Before and Afterp. 15
"We Have to Tell Our Story": Neo-Griots, Schooling, and the Legacy of Racial Resistance in the Other Southp. 17
Students at the Center: The Word, The River, and Education for Liberationp. 46
Opening Reflection
Forming a Mighty Riverp. 46
Beginnings
It's the Working Conditions, Not the Teachersp. 50
The Power to Tell Our Stories
Speaking Out
Rainp. 53
"Just Fill Me Up"p. 56
The Stories in Mep. 57
Commentary
Making Sense of Race Through Counter-Storytelling as Pedagogyp. 59
Education for Liberation Rather Than Exploitation
Speaking Out
We Stand by Our Studentsp. 65
Commentary
Soldiering On: Black Literate Lives Past and Presentp. 72
Closing Reflection
Toward a Critical Reading of the Privatized Cityp. 76
Race and Reform in the Privatized Cityp. 78
Opening Reflection
Capitalist Dreamsp. 78
State Abandonment and the Privatization of Education
Speaking Out
Forgotten by Our Governmentp. 83
Worse Than Those Six Daysp. 85
Does Anybody Know?p. 87
Commentary
Making Schools "Right" Again: Whose Choice Is the Education Market?p. 88
Forceful Expulsion and the Exclusive Right to Home
Speaking Out
Missing Projectp. 93
Who's Holding the Gun?p. 94
Commentary
Racial Reform on Chicago's Home Frontp. 95
Suppression of Veteran Teachers' Labor
Speaking Out
Passing on a Torchp. 101
I Don't Want to Go to That Schoolp. 103
Commentary
African American Teachers in the Old South and the Newp. 104
Poetic Declaration of Rights to the City
Wake Upp. 109
Closing Reflection
"I've Been Scarred and Battered": Warnings from Harlem, Washington, DC, and Beyondp. 111
Putting All Students at the Center: Charting an Agenda for Urban Educational Transformationp. 114
Opening Reflection
From Capitalist Dreams to Freedom Dreamsp. 114
Challenging the Suppression of Identity and Knowledge
Speaking Out
No Black History in Schoolp. 119
Breaking Free of Our Muted Existencep. 122
Commentary
Mis-Education or the Development of Critical Race Consciousness: Curriculum as Heritage Knowledgep. 126
Demanding Rights to the Educational Commons
Speaking Out
Honoring Communityp. 131
Rebuilding New Orleans, Redoing Educationp. 133
The Story of Z: Lessons for Teachers and Educational Policy Makersp. 136
Commentary
Redesigning Urban Schools as Communities: A Grassroots Movement for Changep. 138
Closing Reflection
What's at Stake If We Don't Wake Upp. 142
Conclusionp. 145
Schools, Cities, and Accumulation by Dispossession: A Word on the Indisposable Instruments of Liberationp. 145
Contesting the Politics of Disposability Through Culture and Pedagogy
Speaking Out
Salvaging Our Culture and Our Schoolsp. 153
I Would Not Throw It Out for Anythingp. 157
Afterword: Whiteness and New Orleans: Racio-Economic Analysis and the Politics of Urban Spacep. 159
Referencesp. 163
About the Contributorsp. 177
Indexp. 183
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