Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum A Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Note on Dale D. Johnson -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Challenging the Audit Culture -- 1 The Sadism of School Reform -- 2 Death by Numbers: The Loss of Humanity in the Age of Audit -- 3 Defending Teacher Education From edTPA ... and Itself -- 4 Disrupting U.S. Empire: Creating Subjects to Expand the "Commons" and the Public Good -- 5 SCALE Down, SCALE Back!: Academic Freedom under Siege through Standards Proliferation by Para-Educational Enterprises -- Section II Contributions to Literacy and Language Development -- 6 We Could Teach Every Child to Read, But the Unanswered Question Is: Will We? -- 7 Intervention Assessment of Literacy to Inform Teaching and Increase Learning -- 8 One Size Fits None: Re-Conceptualizing Literacy Instruction for Diverse Learners -- Section III Easing the Plight of Children -- 9 "Every Day She Drunk or Gone": Poverty, Persuasion, Peddlers and Privatization -- 10 Seduction of "East Asian" Schools -- 11 Conditions of Success for Teenage Mothers: Revisiting School Achievement on the Margins -- 12 What's Common in Core Curricula? -- 13 Dehumanization and Violence: Symptoms from a Neoliberal City -- Section IV Challenging Education Inequity in Urban Environments -- 14 The Racial Oppression of Social Justice: Inequities in Chicago Public Schools -- 15 Choosing a Faculty Union over Faculty Governance in Public Education: A Case Study of a Single Teacher Certification Policy in New York -- 16 The Anatomy of Dissent as Teachers Plan and Lead a Demonstration in Seattle: Intersections of Hope, Agency and Collective Action -- Contributor List -- Index