By Kenneth J. Saltman

(Paradigm Publishers, 2007)

Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools is a much-needed critique of public school privatization. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned for the future of public education, the possibilities of sustaining a viable democracy, as well...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Change+of+Course%3a+The+Education+of+Jessie+Adamson.-a0209475725Change of Course: The Education of Jessie Adamson

By Margaret M. Blanchard

(New York: Bloomington: iUniverse, Inc. 2008)

Margaret M. Blanchard, educator and author, modestly describes Change of Course as "a novel of ideas." While it undeniably is that, it is also much more. True, this novel is erudite and well researched, and draws upon theories from multiple disciplines and...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Education+and+the+Cold+War%3a+The+Battle+for+the+American+School.-a0209475724Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School.

By Andrew Hartman

(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

The purpose that this book sets out for itself is to chronicle an intellectual history of American education, showing how educational and political trends in the 1930s and 1940s shaped education in the 1950s. Education and the Cold War is an adaptation of a...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strike+while+the+iron's+hot%3a+using+the+internet+and+current+events...-a0209475723This paper outlines my classroom experiences with a group of secondary school students of French, and it focuses on the development of approaches for encouraging critical political engagement which can be applied to other educational settings. The context here is a government school in inner-city Melbourne, Australia, catering to a socially and ethnically diverse student population of roughly...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/What+does+neoliberalism+have+to+do+with+teaching+research+writing%3f-a0209475722I. When Research and Writing Confront the Disappearance of History

Ask any progressive educator the question posed by my title, and you won't have to wait long for an answer: everything. From the size of the class, to the quality of the computer lab, to the costs of textbooks, to the demographics and the class schedules of the students, to the workload and the compensation of faculty...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Teaching+the+literature+of+revolution.-a0209475721Any truly radical shift in U.S. politics requires the mobilization of widespread social protest. Given the untrammeled abuses of Machtpolitik during the Bush years, with its unapologetic electoral fraud, its attack on the remnants of New Deal and Great Society liberalism, its aggressive militarism, and its smug conviction that a docile population need never factor into its major decisions, it...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Teaching+immigration+at+Borough+of+Manhattan+Community+College.-a0209475720I came to the topic of immigration through my experience in the anti-apartheid and Latin American solidarity movements during the 1980s. As a student, the horrible violations of human rights in South Africa and Central America that led many to flee from their homelands were matched only by the level of deprivation I saw among the children in foster care and the homeless that I encountered as a...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Teaching+about+class+in+the+library.-a0209475719Structures of social and economic class are notoriously difficult for students to see, laboring as they do under the powerful myth that America is a country of endless opportunity, where anyone can triumph over obstacles to be anything they want to be. This is the rhetoric emanating everywhere from American Idol to the presidency of the United States, and it is a powerful story. Library...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Exposing+the+ruling+class+in+the+United+States+using+television+and...-a0209475718Graduate students in my Cross-Cultural Perspectives class at the University of Massachusetts Boston, which has a predominantly working-class student population, usually do not know what I mean by "riding class" when I talk about power politics in the United States. Some are suspicious or hostile--who are these people? And of course most share in the ignorance or denial of class that is...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Teaching+an+interdisciplinary+course+on+the+American+Upper+Class.-a0209475717I teach a course titled the American Upper Class. I first taught the course in the early 1980s after having spent the previous few years writing about the extent to which Jews were and were not allowed into the Protestant Establishment. Drawing especially on the work of E. Digby Baltzell, an upper class sociologist from the Main Line of Philadelphia, and the work of C. Wright Mills, a radical...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Introduction+to+the+teaching+about+the+upper+class+mini-cluster%3a+the...-a0209475716In the three contributions here, Richie Zweigenhaft discusses his college course about the upper class, Pepi Leistyna gives us a comprehensive multimedia bibliography on ruling elites, and Emily Drabinski offers an analysis of the invisibility and obfuscation of class issues in library classification systems. While for a long time, as in the formulation of "race, class, and gender," both the...]]>