The Crisis in American Education: a Love Story
Title | The Crisis in American Education: a Love Story PDF eBook |
Author | Robert McLaughlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-11-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781495181665 |
Our Kids
Title | Our Kids PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Putnam |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1476769907 |
"The bestselling author of Bowling Alone offers [an] ... examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"--
A Different Kind of Teacher
Title | A Different Kind of Teacher PDF eBook |
Author | John Taylor Gatto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781893163409 |
For more than a decade, former New York City and State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto has been among the most insightful and outspoken critics of American schooling, and an influential visionary of the future of education. Through hundreds of public talks, articles, interviews, and classroom projects, Gatto has shown decisively where our failing schools have gone wrong and what can be done to fix them. In A Different Kind of Teacher, the bestselling author of Dumbing Us Down has collected his most important writings of the past ten years -- reports, meditations, action plans, and jeremiads -- that will change forever the reader's understanding of how our system of education really operates, and how it can be rescued. Book jacket.
We Want to Do More Than Survive
Title | We Want to Do More Than Survive PDF eBook |
Author | Bettina L. Love |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2019-02-19 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0807069159 |
Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
The Crisis in American Education
Title | The Crisis in American Education PDF eBook |
Author | Sudbury Valley School |
Publisher | The Sudbury Valley School |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781888947052 |
Between Past and Future
Title | Between Past and Future PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Arendt |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2006-09-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1101662654 |
From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.
Disavowed Knowledge
Title | Disavowed Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Maas Taubman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2012-05-22 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1136815791 |
This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. It provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis.