Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum: Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson (Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism)

Section I: Challenging the Audit Culture 1. The Sadism of School Reform William F. Pinar 2. Death by Numbers: The Loss of Humanity in the Age of Audit Peter Taubman 3. Defending Teacher Education from edTPA . . . and Itself Todd Alan Price 4. Disrupting U.S. Empire: Creating Subjects to Expand the “Commons” and the Public Good Roberta Ahlquist 5. SCALE Down, SCALE Back!: Academic Freedom under Siege through Standards Proliferation by Para- Educational Enterprises Stephen J. Farenga & Daniel Ness Section II: Contributions to Literacy and Language Development 6. We Could Teach Every Child to Read But the Unanswered Question Is: Will we? Richard L. Allington 7. Intervention Assessment of Literacy to Inform Teaching and Increase Learning Jeanne R. Paratore & Roselmina Indrisano 8. One Size Fits None: Re-Conceptualizing Literacy Instruction for Diverse Learners Evan Ortlieb & Autumn M. Dodge Section III: Easing the Plight of Children 9. “Every Day She Drunk or Gone”: Poverty, Persuasion, Peddlers, and Privatization Bonnie Johnson 10. Seduction of “East Asian” Schools Barbara S. S. Hong 11. Conditions of Success for Teenage Mothers: Revisiting School Achievement on the Margins Elizabeth Chase 12. Whats Common in Core Curricula? Isabel Nuez 13. Dehumanization and Violence: Symptoms from a Neoliberal City Kay Fujioshi Section IV: Challenging Education Inequity in Urban Environments 14. The Racial Oppression of Social Justice: Inequities in Chicago Public Schools Carl A. Grant 15. Choosing a Faculty Union over Faculty Governance in Public Education: A Case Study of a Single Teacher Certification Policy in New York David Gerwin 16. The Anatomy of Dissent as Teachers Plan and Lead a Demonstration in Seattle: Intersections of Hope, Agency, and Collective Action Richard D. Sawyer