Education Radio on “Won’t Back Down” and the Parent Trigger
Leonie Haimson
Highly recommended.
On this program you will hear from real parents who are active in education.
“Won’t Back Down”: Corporate Education Reform and the Rhetoric of Fiction
In the past weeks, we have watched with renewed energy and hope as the teachers, parents, students and community members of Chicago have shown us the power of solidarity. Their resistance to the privatization of public education and their demand to reclaim the classroom from hedge fund managers, real estate tycoons, venture philanthropists and their political stooges, is shifting the narrative from one of blaming teachers,