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2011

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Democracy and Education

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A Review Of Listening To And Learning From Students, Deborah Meier Oct 2011

A Review Of Listening To And Learning From Students, Deborah Meier

Democracy and Education

A review of the book Listening to and Learning from Students, edited by Brian Schultz (Information Age Publishing, 2011).


Imagining No Child Left Behind Freed From Neoliberal Hijackers, Eugene Matusov Oct 2011

Imagining No Child Left Behind Freed From Neoliberal Hijackers, Eugene Matusov

Democracy and Education

As a sociocultural educator and scholar, I have always been ambivalent about No Child Left Behind's slogan. I like its democratic ideal of “education without failure,” but I do not like the current educational policies guided by a neoliberal ideology. This article begins a discussion about what a No Student Left Behind educational practice might look like from a sociocultural democratic education perspective.