Why School? Reclaiming Education For All of Us

Published 27 Oct 2009, 9:45 am - 1 Comment -
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United Teachers of Los Angeles has announced it is considering legal action against the recent LA Unified School District’s “Schools Choice Plan”. Through a bidding process, the plan will put 300 schools under new contracts with private or public entities. Potentially all 300 schools could be turned into charter schools. LAUSD says it is finally taking the bold action necessary to fix its notoriously low-performing schools. But according to the UTLA, the plan is a path to education privatization. The debate raging in LA over how to reform education is not just a city or state-wide debate - it is a national problem. Today’s guest Mike Rose recently wrote that the celebration of charter schools by the Federal Department of Education overlooks research that finds that charter schools on average perform no better or worse than public schools. Rose, an accomplished educator, faculty member of the UCLA graduate school of Education and Information Technology, and author, tackles not only the “How” questions of education, but the “Why’s”. His recent book, entitled, “Why School?: Reclaiming Education For All of Us”, discusses what can be done to transform the American way of education into one that values human development and the responsibilities of democratic citizenship.

GUEST: Mike Rose, professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, author of Lives on the Boundary, The Mind At Work, and Possible Lives.

Read Mike’s blog here: http://web.mac.com/mikerosebooks/Site/Welcome.html

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Disorder and Great Disorder Are Order « The Uncanny on 1 Nov 2009 at 7:37 am: 1

[...] we don’t know how to describe it. But these are the signs of cultural decay. In his new book, Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us, Mike Rose tells us that, “We live in an anxious age and seek our grounding, our assurances [...]

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