Bad and good ways to defend social foundations and reform teacher education

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In Part I of a series of essays that somehow connect the politics of teacher education to austerity plans in Greece, Henry Giroux disappointed me most at "It is precisely this rejection of theory that prevents teachers from addressing the right-wing policies now being enacted in Texas and Arizona."...

Learning on Other People's Kids - an important book on Teach For America

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I wondered, "Whose America is Teach For America really teaching for? Why is it tolerable for education to be less-thanfor other people's kids? And, what are we, as a nation, really prepared to do about it?Those are the concluding words of Barbara Torre Veltri in her book Learning on Other People's...

50 Political Ideologies

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I thought this was an interesting attempt:My list of the 50 most significant modern and contemporary political ideologies. Students and teachers may find it especially valuable (it worked well in a class I guest-taught in the Peace and Conflict Studies Department at UC-Berkeley in April 2010).Along...