1. Against School
   How public education cripples our kids, and why
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2003
   An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
2. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
3. 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.
4. Connexions
   Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1987
   
6. Connexions Digest
   Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   
7. Education for Change: Henry Giroux and Transformative Critical Pedagogy
   Against The Current vol. 83
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1999
   These are difficult times for teachers in U.S. public schools. The increasing size of schools, chronic underfunding of schools serving working-class students (especially students of color), work overload, school violence, professional isolation and the deskilling and devaluing of teachers' work have led to rising rates of teacher burnout in recent decades. The average career trajectory of a teacher in the United States is about five years.
8. EducationSources.ca
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2017
   Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
9. High Stakes Testing
   Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
10. March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?
    Against The Current vol. 82
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named “A+ Plan for Education” which had previously been passed in the House by a vote of 70-48.
11. The Realities of Chicago School Reform
    Against The Current vol. 82
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    In Chicago, the current round of school reform efforts began in the late 1980s. They were ostensibly sparked by the November 1987 public pronouncement of William Bennett, then-Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, calling Chicago schools "the worst in the nation."
12. The Revisionaries
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
13. 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.
14. Social Movements/Social Change
    The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
15. The Survival of Education
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I remember reading Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politically sharp but also deeply humanizing way in which Kozol documented how institutional racism and class inequality shape the experiences of students in American schools, a reality that all of us who have been educated in this country have experienced first-hand in one way or another.

Experts on Politique en matiŠre d`‚ducation in the Sources Directory

1. Inter-American Development Bank