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Educational Justice
That education should instill and nurture democracy is an
American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable,
together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and
Walmart's owners, the Waltons, have been turning public schools
into corporate mills. Their top-down programs, such as Common Core
State Standards, track, judge, and homogenize the minds of millions
of American students from kindergarten through high school. But
corporate funders would not be able to implement this educational
control without the de facto partnership of government at all
levels, channeling public moneys into privatization initiatives,
school closings, and high-stakes testing that discourages
independent thinking. Educational Justice offers hope that there's
still time to take on corporatized schools and achieve democratic
justice in the classroom. Forcefully written by educator and
journalist Howard Ryan, with contributing authors, the book opens
with four chapters that discuss theories on teacher unionism,
social justice pedagogy, and corporate school reform. These
chapters are balanced with four case-study chapters documenting
exemplary teaching and school-site organizing practices in the
field. Reports from various educational fronts include innovative
union strategies against charter school expansion, as well as
teaching visions drawn from the vibrant \"whole language\" movement.
Bold, informative, clearly reasoned, this book is an education in
itself-a democratic one at that.
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