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A conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates the discussion about what’s wrong with our schools and how to fix them. It offers solutions” that scapegoat teachers, vilify unions, and impose a market mentality. But in each case, students lose. This book, written by teacher-activists, speaks back to that elite consensus and offers an alternative vision of learning for liberation.



Author Bios Jeff Bale is an associate professor at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studiesn in Education. He teaches and writes about the history and politics of language education in US schools, and about language policies targeting immigrant youth in Germany. His work has appeared in International Socialist Review, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and Tertium Comparationis. In addition, Bale taught English learners and German in urban public schools for a decade. In District of Columbia Public Schools, he was a building representative for the Washington Teachers' Union. While teaching in Tempe, Arizona, Bale was active in school-based and community organizations challenging anti-bilingual education policies in that state.

Sarah Knopp is a high school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has contributed articles to California: Under Corporate Rule by Peter Camejo, United Teacher, the newspaper of United Teachers of L.A., CounterPunch.org, and to the International Socialist Review.

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Publication date: April 17, 2012

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