Badass Teachers Unite!
Subtitle: Writing on Education, History, and Youth Activism
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781608463619
Subjects: Educational change; Student movements
Description: In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education "reform" policies that undermine their power and creativity. Naison shows how dominant education policy systematically hurts the very children it claims to support and instead forces them to "race to the top." He exposes the Duncans, Rhees, and Gateses for schemes that intensify racial and economic inequality. And he refocuses the conversation on teaching and organizing strategies that should be implemented in communities everywhere.