These pieces echo and expand those in Section B of Educational Courage, “Is this What We Call Education?” They detail further examples of the ways in which education and the lives of teachers, students and families have been damaged and distorted by top-down, neo-liberal educational policies. These narratives offer more reasons to be alarmed by the impact of market-driven educational practices and to commit to sustained resistance and action.
Leaving Behind What Matters by Irina Bleckman
Flash Cards Were Foreign by Stephanie Evergreen
Controlled and Contained By State Tests: A Fourth-Grade Teacher’s Struggle to Provide a Socially Just Educational Experience by Kurt Love and Candice Server
Poetry Test by Kevin Cothren
Taught to Remove All Thought by Lynn Stratton
Can You Standarize a Dream? by Dan Porter