Complicating “White Privilege” » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Complicating “White Privilege” » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Living & Learning in Poverty: Paul Gorski to speak at Furman University on pover...

Living & Learning in Poverty: Paul Gorski to speak at Furman University on pover...: A Cultural Life Program on poverty will be sponsored by the Furman University chapter of the NAACP this coming WEDNESDAY October 26 in McEa...

Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth | Truthout

Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth | Truthout

Ruby Payne helps spark community conversation on poverty - Columbia Missourian

This is why we must be diligent in debunking her work:

Ruby Payne helps spark community conversation on poverty - Columbia Missourian

The Legacy of Disadvantage: Multigenerational Neig...

The Legacy of Disadvantage: Multigenerational Neig...: "The Legacy of Disadvantage: Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects on Cognitive Ability"

Real shame of APS cheating: "We have let testing corporations make mockery of education."

Real shame of APS cheating: "We have let testing corporations make mockery of education"

Profiting on Poverty?: Inexcusable

Profiting on Poverty?: Inexcusable

Updated at EdChange

New Book!
Check out Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne Are Destroying Our Schools, a new book edited by Roberta Ahlquist, Paul C. Gorski, and Theresa Montaño (Peter Lang, 2011). Hyper-accountability, corporatization, deficit ideology, and Ruby Payne's preparation of teachers to comply with these and other atrocities are not merely markers of philosophical shifts in education. They are manifestations of a neoliberal remaking of public schooling into a private and corporate enterprise. Collectively, these trends are experienced not just as an imposition, but as an assault on quality pedagogy; an assault on democratic ideals of equity and social justice; and an assault on kids compelled to participate simply because they are public school students. This edited collection is a response by critically-minded educators, activists, and scholars - both a reaction to and a call to action against these vilifications. It is critical reading for students, professors, administrators, and policy makers involved in public education. In this book, teachers, activists, and scholars describe this assault and how to counteract it.

Essays and Working Papers
Introduction to Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne Are Destroying Our Schools (2011, Peter Lang Publishers)
by Roberta Ahlquist, Paul C. Gorski, and Theresa Montaño

Ten commitments of a multicultural educator, Paul Gorski

Equity and social justice from the inside-out: Ten commitments of a multicultural educator

Paul C. Gorski, George Mason University

Out of the mouths of babes (or, at least, a child). . .

Deconstructing Ruby Payne's Framework

Radical Scholarship: NBA Finals and "No Excuses" Charters

Radical Scholarship: NBA Finals and "No Excuses" Charters: "NBA Finals and 'No Excuses' Charters"

When Students Are Silenced By Joan F. Goodman

When Students Are Silenced By Joan F. Goodman

Consider this call for student agency in contrast to the authoritarian/paternal stances of "no excuses" ideology and deficit view of those trapped in poverty.

Also—

The Sound of Silence

By Susan Graham

U.S. attitudes about poverty

Note the comments section below my NYT commentary:

Avoiding the Poverty Issue

Kohn and Haberman confront "pedagogy of poverty"

Poor Teaching for Poor Children…in the Name of Reform

By Alfie Kohn

The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching
by Martin Haberman