No citizen left behind [electronic resource] / Meira Levinson.
2012
LC1091 .L39 2012eb
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Title
No citizen left behind [electronic resource] / Meira Levinson.
Author
Levinson, Meira.
ISBN
9780674065291 electronic book
0674065786
9780674065789
0674065786
9780674065789
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (388 p.)
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LC1091 .L39 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
370.11/5
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ; 13
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Table of Contents
The civic empowerment gap
"At school I talk straight" : race talk and civic empowerment
"You have the right to struggle" : constructing historical counternarrative
Rethinking heroes and role models
How to soar in a world you've never seen : making citizenship visible in schools
The case for action civics
Democracy, accountability, and education.
"At school I talk straight" : race talk and civic empowerment
"You have the right to struggle" : constructing historical counternarrative
Rethinking heroes and role models
How to soar in a world you've never seen : making citizenship visible in schools
The case for action civics
Democracy, accountability, and education.