By Laurel M. Sturt
ISBN-10: 0991205103
ISBN-13: 9780991205103
Calling on coverage, examine, humor and a beneficiant serving of snark, during this innovative tale, irreverent Laurel M. Sturt pulls no punches detailing her extraordinary lifestyles within the trenches instructing in a high-needs common university within the Bronx. With the Alice In Wonderland backdrop of a faculty strangled via poverty, No baby Left Behind's "accountability" and Michael Bloomberg's micromanagement, Sturt trains an unflinching eye at the problem confronting todayʼs educators, offering a scathing indictment of pretentious academic reform pushed by way of a mercenary schedule to denationalise a process worthy billions. the writer fees educators and oldsters to unite and set up on the grassroots point to struggle for this civil rights factor of our time--the correct to an honest education--coalescing round confirmed non-negotiables akin to common pre-kindergarten, a wealthy curriculum unfastened from high-stakes checking out, and the socioeconomic integration of colleges. by means of refusing an apartheid during which the single percentage and the ninety-nine percentage obtain tremendously diversified educations, group via neighborhood we will be able to force again the privatizers, restoring the “public” to a process dedicated to all.
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