My Challenge to the False Prophets of Education Reform
EducationMar 7, 2011At some point during my sophomore year of junior college, I came to recognize myself as a teacher while working as a tutor for Dean Carter’s British Literature survey course. I had discovered my calling to be a writer about a year before that.
During my journey to major in education and certify to teach high school English, I committed fully to creating my own classroom unlike most classrooms I had experienced as a student, but I also pledged to work from inside the public education system to reform all of education—not just my classroom.
For nearly thirty years now, which include moving to teacher education after teaching high school for eighteen years, I have had my calls for reform marginalized, ignored, and silenced, but I could never have predicted the current education reform movement that has backed critical reformers such as me into a state of constant rebuttal—marginalizing us in the worst
