No Citizen Left Behind - Hardcover

Levinson, Meira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674065786 ISBN 13: 9780674065789

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2012

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Levinson advocates restoring civic education, which gives young people insights into the workings of the American political system, to the educational curriculum on a national scale. She believes that ensuring all students receive the same civic education would strengthen our country and cause more citizens to take an active role in its government...Civic education is an area of education reform that experts have overlooked, but it could have a major impact on our country if achieved. The experiences and research Levinson shares have the potential to produce a national "aha" moment. -- Terry Christner Library Journal 20120501 Read No Citizen Left Behind by Meira Levinson--a forthright defense of schools as institutions for teaching about democracy and justice. -- Deborah Meier Education Week blog 20120419

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While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students' individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left Behind. No Citizen Left Behind argues that students must be taught how to upend and reshape power relationships directly, through political and civic action. Drawing on political theory, empirical research, and her own on-the-ground experience, Levinson shows how de facto segregated urban schools can and must be at the center of this struggle. Recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking the curriculum. Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education. Schools should teach collective action, openly discuss the racialized dimensions of citizenship, and provoke students by engaging their passions against contemporary injustices. Students must also have frequent opportunities to take civic and political action, including within the school itself. To build a truly egalitarian society, we must reject myths of civic sameness and empower all young people to raise their diverse voices. Levinson's account challenges not just educators but all who care about justice, diversity, or democracy.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0674065786
• ISBN 13: 9780674065789
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400