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

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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