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- Title: Affecting Social Change: The Struggle for Educators to Transform Society.
- Author : Educational Foundations
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 194 KB
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Since he first chronicled the plight of schools and the painful struggle to provide quality education for children of all backgrounds and abilities in Death at an Early Age (1967), Jonathon Kozol has been a strong and popular advocate for children. In his recent work, The Shame of the Nation (2005), Kozol contends that the unrealistic goals set by policies, such as No Child Left Behind, are breaking school districts, schools that have already been overburdened and have few resources to improve their situation. When addressing the problems for today's educators, Kozol points out that current federal efforts are designed "not to benefit children but to humiliate the public enterprise" (as cited in Jehlen, 2006, p. 17). Kozol has joined with teachers' unions like the National Education Association to "stave off an onslaught of misguided federal dictates" in order to "help mobilize teachers to take action politically and launch a new movement for racial integration" (Jehlen, p. 17). Unfortunately for Kozol, history has not been kind to reformers who have attempted to wrestle control of public schools from bureaucracies that impair school quality. George S. Counts and Ivan Illich are the most outstanding examples of those reformers who have tried and failed to initiate substantive school policy change. Though Counts and Illich come from very different generations and very different geographical regions, their quest to enhance public education shares very similar paths. As a result, their work warrants attention by those interested in the history of education as well those interested in contemporary school policy. Highlighting their careers and failures, this essay will provide insight to those like Kozol who attempt to modify American public schools.
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