Status Updates From Another Kind of Public Educ...

"The question is not whether classroom space is political or not, but rather what kinds of politics are practiced there."

"This eroding support for public institutions is rarely labeled as racial - the rules of color-blind racism make us much too polite for that - yet the roots of privatization can be traced to white reactions to the Brown [v. Board of Education] decision."

"The dignified, largely positive tone of the Obama campaign, and its success, suggest that the polarization of the American electorate need not continue."

lines like this make me acutely aware of just how much has happened since this was published in 2009

“Schools are places that mold ideas, that, through a variety of ways, in a so-called hidden curriculum, reward us for seemingly appropriate ideas and behaviors and punish others. Schools do more than teach. They control access to jobs, sort people into groups, attempt to control what we think and say, attach privilege to some and not to others, and, via these activities, perpetuate school inequalities...”