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Bad Teacher!
How Blaming Teachers Distorts the
Bigger Picture
Kevin K. Kumashiro is director of the Center for
Anti-Oppressive Education; president-elect (2010–
2012) of the National Association for Multicultural
Education; and professor at the University of Illinois
at Chicago.
New
Edition
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“This book could be a
springboard for teachers...to
become more
actively involved in
advocating for a paradigm
shift in our concept
of education.”
—Grace Lee Boggs,
The Boggs Center
“Join Kumashiro in a
clarion call to build a
Movement to reclaim
public education.”
—Robert P. Moses, The Algebra Project
“Courageous, blunt, and hopeful, Bad Teacher!
offers a democratic vision for true educational
change.”
—Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts
at Amherst
Best
Seller
“Anyone seeking to understand why so many of the
reforms we have pursued have failed will benefit
from reading this book.”
—Pedro A. Noguera, New York University
“Kumashiro explains why we should think differently
about the prescriptions that are now taken
for granted—and wrong.”
—Diane Ravitch, New York University
“Kumashiro expertly examines the many forces
working against public education, and how and
why these forces are at play.”
—Dennis Van Roekel, President, National
Education Association
In his latest book, leading educator and author
Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current
debate on educational reform, paying particular
attention to the ways that scapegoating
public school teachers, teacher unions, and
teacher educators masks the real, systemic
problems. He convincingly demonstrates how
current trends, like market-based reforms and
fast-track teacher certification programs are
creating overwhelming obstacles to achieving
an equitable education for all children.
Bad Teacher! highlights the common ways
that both the public and influential leaders
think about the problems and solutions for
public education, and suggests ways to help
us see the bigger picture and reframe the
debate. Compelling, accessible, and grounded
in current initiatives and debates, this book
is important reading for a diverse audience
of policymakers, school leaders, parents, and
everyone who cares about education.
Audience: Education policymakers, administrators,
and teachers; courses in educational policy, politics
of education, school leadership, school reform,
curriculum and instruction, teacher education,
multicultural education, and political science.
2012/120 pp./PB, $21.95/5321-7
The Teaching for Social Justice Series
Also by Kevin Kumashiro: See Author Index
Charter Schools and the
Corporate Makeover of
Public Education
What’s at Stake
Michael Fabricant, professor, Hunter College
School of Social Work and executive officer, Ph.D.
Program in Social Welfare, and Michelle Fine,
Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology,
Women’s Studies, and Urban Education, Graduate
Center, both at CUNY
Foreword by Deborah Meier
New
Edition
“A spectacular book—
needs to be published
yesterday.”
—Deborah Meier,
New York University
“Fabricant and Fine
have fearlessly
peered behind
the Waiting for
Superman hype.
Everyone interested in
the future of American
education needs to read
this insightful analysis of how our public schools
are being dismantled under the banner of reform.”
—Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News
columnist and co-host of
Democracy Now!
“The authors go well beyond a defense of the status
quo in offering a progressive agenda to more fully
realize education’s democratic ideals.”
—Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona
“Presents an invaluably clear, historically textured,
and carefully argued account of the charter school
idea.”
—Adolph Reed, Jr.,
University of Pennsylvania
“The authors help us see that the emperor has no
clothes when one truthfully examines the entire
heavily funded charter school movement and the
emerging privatization of public education.”
—Barbara J. Fields,
Executive Board Member of Black
Educator Alliance of Massachusetts
This book will reset the discourse on charter
schooling by systematically exploring the gap
between the promise and the performance of
charter schools. The authors do not defend the
public school system, which for decades has
failed primarily poor children of color. Instead,
they use empirical evidence to determine
whether charter schooling offers an authentic
alternative for these children. In concise chapters,
they address a series of important questions
related to the recent ascent of charter
schools and the radical restructuring of public
education. This essential introduction includes
a detailed history of the charter movement, an
analysis of the politics and economics driving
the movement, documentation of actual
student outcomes, and alternative images
of transforming public education to serve all
children.
Audience: Educators, policymakers, and activists;
courses in educational policy, school reform, sociology
of education, political science, urban studies,
African American studies, and social welfare.
2012/176 pp./PB, $25.95/5285-2
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Best
Seller
Also Michelle Fine: See Author Index
Black School White School
Racism and Educational
(Mis)Leadership
Jeffrey S. Brooks is associate professor and
program coordinator of Educational Administration
at Iowa State University, and editor of the Journal of
School Leadership.
Foreword by Lisa D. Delpit
Afterword by William Ayers
New
Edition
NEW
“While there are always
some exceptional teachers
who will produce
classroom excellence
wherever they may be
located, to create an
exceptional school, it
takes principals who can
re-envision the
possibilities.”
—From the Foreword by
Lisa D. Delpit, Florida
International University
“Convincingly shows how White privilege and
unconscious bias trickles down from administrators
to teachers to, ultimately, infect the student
Best
Seller
body. After reading this important book, one is
thoroughly convinced that ‘leadership matters’
with respect to race and education.”
—Dalton Conley, New York University
“A much-needed empirical analysis of how race
and culture function in schools. This book is a
must-read for both school leaders and those who
prepare them.”
—Sonya Douglass Horsford,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Powerful empirical insights on one of the most
critical and knotty issues in school leadership
today.”
—Joseph F. Murphy, Vanderbilt University
“If we are serious about creating equitable and
excellent schools, Brooks’ account in Black School
White School offers a poignant and important
look at these very real issues.”
—George Theoharis, Syracuse University
“Anyone who thought they knew about race and
race relations in the schools will find in this volume
new content and highly nuanced descriptions
not available anywhere else.”
—Fenwick W. English, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In this timely and provocative book, the author
identifies cultural and unstated norms and
beliefs around race and race relations, and
explores how these dynamics influence the
kind of education students receive. Drawing
on findings from extensive observations, interviews,
and documents, the author reveals that
many decisions that should have been based
on pedagogy (or what is best for students)
were instead inspired by conscious and unconscious
racist assumptions, discrimination,
and stereotypes. This book will help schools
and leadership programs to take the next
step in addressing longstanding and deeply
entrenched inequity and inequality in schools.
Audience: Secondary school administrators,
teachers, professional developers, superintendents,
district personnel, school psychologists and
counselors, and curriculum specialists; courses
in leadership and policy, school reform, anthropology/sociology
of education, urban education,
organizational analysis, race, class, and gender
studies.
2012/176 pp./PB, $28.95/5312-5
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