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Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
61 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is school the best way to get an education? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have spent several years in school being graded on the quality of their work. But after hearing an award-winning teacher discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are best educated, the Tuttle family decides to embark on a new learning adventure. Long-time educator John Taylor Gatto shares ideas with the Tuttle family from his Book "The Underground history...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"No sooner is a child walking and talking than the ABCs and 1-2-3s give way to the full-on alphabet soup: the ERBs, the OLSAT, the IQ, the NCLB for AYP, the IEP for ELLs, the CHAT and PDDST for ASD or LD and G & T or ADD and ADHD, the PSATs, then the ACTs and SATs-all designed to assess and monitor a child's readiness for education. In many public schools, students are spending up to 28% of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, eagerly anticipated exploration (past and present) of white supremacy in the teachings of our national education system, its depth, breadth, and persistence-and how, through generations of our nation's most esteemed educators and textbooks, racism has been insidiously fostered-North and South-at all levels of learning. . In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xv, 307 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, American Indian Movement (AIM) organizers in Minneapolis and St. Paul and local Native parents came together to start their own community school. While AIM is best known for its national protests and political demands, the survival schools foreground the movement's local and regional engagement with issues of language, culture, spirituality, and identity....
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date
[2026]
Physical Desc
xx, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapolis's public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval-and forever changed the city's politics, labor law, educational climate, and the right to collective bargaining"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Makes recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States, including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits, and unbalanced energy consumption.
Author
Publisher
Thesis
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"America's most influential teacher's union leader tells the anti-fascist history of public education, warning that American teachers today are under a new fascist assault-from book bans to culture wars and organized groups of "concerned" parents dictating what can be taught"-- Provided by publisher.
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