1. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
2. A Brief Look at Public Alternative Schools in Ontario
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1978
   
3. Can Free Schools Work?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1985
   Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round’s projects achieved long term success.
4. Challenged Books List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2004
   A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
5. Challenging McWorld
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   
6. Choices
   A Family Global Action Handbook
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1987
   Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
7. Class Warfare
   The Assault on Canada's School
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
8. Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1998
   The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fail to graduate, are ruthlessly pursued by the corporate elite in order to control people and to justify increasing inequality in society.
10. Criminalizing First-Graders
    Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian ‘zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
11. Death at an Early Age
    Resource Type: Book
    
12. Deschooling Our Lives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Deschooling Our Lives would be of interest to people wishing to learn about alternative methods of education beyond the confines of the conventional school system. The book is a collection of short piece by various homeschooling advocates such as Holt, Tolstoy and Illich. The articles are both theoretical and practical with some concrete descriptions and examples of alternative schooling projects.
13. Deschooling Society
    Resource Type: Book
    
14. Education for the TurnAround Decade: The Environmentally Friendly School
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
15. Escape from Childhood
    Resource Type: Book
    
16. Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    
17. Freedom and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
    
18. The Hidden Injuries of Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1972
    Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
19. High Stakes Testing
    Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    The tests are very destructive educationally. They test students on such a broad range of materials that teachers have to rush through the curriculum; they cannot allow real discussion or in-depth study. Education is reduced to memorization of disconnected facts.
20. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
21. How Children Fail
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. I Won't Learn from You
    And Other Inquiries Into the Control and Liberation of Learning
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This collection of essays discusses what takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised.
23. In the Corporate Interest
    The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
24. Instead of Education
    Resource Type: Book
    
25. Israel’s School Apartheid Highlighted By Court Case
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Instances of Arab children being denied places at kindergartens and junior schools have become more common in recent years. Now, an Arab couple whose daughter was expelled from an Israeli daycare centre on her first day because she was Arab is taking the case to court.
26. MCAS: Why Is This Being Done to Our Kids?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    High stakes tests are meant to legitimize the growing inequality of society. They are designed to drive millions of students out of school so that, if they end up with a low-paying job or no job at all, they will blame themselves instead of the corporate system. Tests like MCAS are not about education but about social control.
27. Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
    Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
28. Mobile Schools Help Nomadic Somalis Fight Drought
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Mobile schools - secular pre-schools which follow these groups as they move to find pasture and water for livestock - are an attempt to help nomadic communities develop more options as the climate becomes increasingly hostile.
29. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
30. A National Crime
    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    
31. New Options for America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
32. On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law in an extreme and uncompromising manner to any activity, violent or not, that is deemed to be anti-social.
33. P.I.S.E.M. Materials
    Questions Immigrants Raise; Immigrant Life in Toronto; Themes for English language training of Portuguese
    Resource Type: Slide Show
    First Published: 1977
    Audio-visual materials designed for use in small groups with immigrants to give them information about dealing with alienating elements in their environment.
34. Respect Bathurst
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
35. Rituals Of Failure
    What Schools Really Teach
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
36. School Reform and the Attack on Public Education
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
37. Schools Against Children
    Resource Type: Book
    
38. Skills Mania
    Snake Oil in Our Schools?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
39. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Book
    
40. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
41. "Take This Test and Shove It!"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    Open resistance to high stakes tests is an important development: it can be the first step in a movement uniting students, teachers, parents, and others against the corporate assault on public education and for a democratic society.
42. Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
43. They’re Going to be Stuffing Our Kids
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Will technology in the classroom be a boon to educators in the future, or a disaster waiting to happen?
44. 36 Children
    Resource Type: Book
    
45. Three Cups of Tea
    One Man's Mission To Promote Peace ... One School At A Time
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
46. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
47. You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and Social Control
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    The remarkable thing about the public schools isn't that some teachers become demoralized and "burned out," or that some students drop out or do poorly, but that so many teachers and students achieve so much in the face of a system designed to fail.

Experts on Schools in the Sources Directory

1. The Alberta Teachers' Association
2. Brock University
3. Canadian Council on Learning
4. Crescent School
5. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
6. Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
7. Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
8. Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
9. Simon Fraser University
10. Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada