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Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture

Kevin K. Kumashiro

Publication Date: February 24, 2012

Pages: 120

Series: Teaching for Social Justice Series

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Description+

In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates how current trends, like market-based reforms and fast-track teacher certification programs are creating overwhelming obstacles to achieving an equitable education for all children.

Bad Teacher! highlights the common ways that both the public and influential leaders think about the problems and solutions for public education, and suggests ways to help us see the bigger picture and reframe the debate. Compelling, accessible, and grounded in current initiatives and debates, this book is important reading for a diverse audience of policymakers, school leaders, parents, and everyone who cares about education.

Author+

Kevin K. Kumashiro is director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education and president-elect (2010–2012) of the National Association for Multicultural

Education. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools.

Reviews+

“Anyone seeking to understand why so many of the reforms we have pursued have failed will benefit from reading this book.”
—Pedro A. Noguera, New York University

“Kumashiro explains why we should think differently about the prescriptions that are now taken for granted—and wrong.”
—Diane Ravitch, New York University

“Kumashiro expertly examines the many forces working against public education, and how and why these forces are at play.”
—Dennis Van Roekel, President, National Education Association

“This book could be a springboard for teachers … to become more actively involved in advocating for a paradigm shift in our concept of education.”
—Grace Lee Boggs, The Boggs Center

“Kumashiro is a remarkable sleuth who … shows us how the deck is stacked, how the game is played, who gains, and who loses. Join him in a clarion call to build a Movement to reclaim public education.”
—Robert P. Moses, The Algebra Project

“Courageous, blunt, and hopeful, Bad Teacher! offers a democratic vision for true educational change.”
—Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

“Bad Teacher! is oh-so-smart and timely….This book attacks head-on the ragged patchwork of ‘school reform’ that has left us without even the vocabulary to frame what’s gone wrong.”
—Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School

Awards+

2012 One of 15 Christian Science Monitor's Must-read books about K–12 education in the U.S.

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Brave Community
Brave Community
Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth
Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth
Child Care Justice
Child Care Justice
Rise for Racial Justice
Rise for Racial Justice
Dignity-Affirming Education
Dignity-Affirming Education
Where Is the Justice? Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities
Where Is the Justice? Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities
Teacher Educators as Critical Storytellers
Teacher Educators as Critical Storytellers
Surrendered
Surrendered
Holler If You Hear Me, Comic Edition
Holler If You Hear Me, Comic Edition
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