Wednesday, April 14, 2010

In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis

by Henry A. Giroux from Truthout. 3800 words and at this point I've read only a small part of it, but I have a lot of respect for this author.
...teachers are being deskilled, unceremoniously removed from the process of school governance, largely reduced to technicians or subordinated to the authority of security guards. Underlying these transformations are a number of forces eager to privatize schools, substitute vocational training for education and reduce teaching and learning to reductive modes of testing and evaluation.