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Save Our Schools Rally Chicago, March 17, 2013, Todd Alan Price
Save Our Schools Rally Chicago, March 17, 2013, Todd Alan Price
Faculty Publications
Using a video camera, I documented the historic Save our Schools Rally Chicago, March 27, 2013. Included was a march led by President Karen Lewis of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), interviews respectively of Reverend Jesse Jackson, a special education teacher-Diana, and a healthcare worker, and footage of community members performing civil disobedience. Perhaps most compelling are the voices of students—high school seniors— who spoke eloquently against school closings.
Complexity And Complicity: Quality(S) And/Or Effectiveness In Teacher Education, Todd Alan Price
Complexity And Complicity: Quality(S) And/Or Effectiveness In Teacher Education, Todd Alan Price
Faculty Publications
The period spanning 2001 to 2015 could best be characterized in the words “shock and awe” in the United States of America. During this tumultuous time, the public good was placed under increasingly austere measures as a direct result of war, widespread financial speculation, and crash of the financial, investment, and real estate market(s). Subsequently, a banking industry bailout of epic proportions - shouldered disproportionately by average American taxpayers - led to political upheavals, and an increasingly divided body politic. Public education was severely impacted. With the No Child Left Behind Act (2002) school districts were placed under audit and …