| Davonte's Inferno: Ten Years in the New York Public School Gulag Contributor(s): Sturt, Laurel M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0991205103 ISBN-13: 9780991205103 Publisher: Written Warrior Press OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Urban - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 370.974 |
| LCCN: 2013921140 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.88 lbs) 346 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A TEACHER'S STORY OF FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICAN EDUCATION TODAY. Calling on policy, research, humor and a generous serving of snark, in this cutting edge story irreverent Laurel M. Sturt pulls no punches detailing her bizarre life in the trenches teaching in a high-needs elementary school in the Bronx. With the Alice in Wonderland backdrop of teaching in a school strangled by poverty, No Child Left Behind's "accountability," and Michael Bloomberg's micromanagement, Sturt trains an unflinching eye on the crisis confronting today's educators, delivering a scathing indictment of pretentious education reform driven by a mercenary agenda to privatize a system worth billions. The author charges educators and parents to unite and organize at the grassroots level to fight for this civil rights issue of our time--the right to a decent education--coalescing around proven non-negotiables such as sufficient funding, universal pre-kindergarten, a rich curriculum free from high stakes testing, and the socioeconomic integration of schools. By refusing an apartheid in which the one percent and the ninety-nine percent receive vastly different educations, community by community we can drive back the privatizers, restoring the "public" to a system committed to all. |