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"We're In The Business Of A Good Education": Schooled To Profit Or Educated To Create?, Nicole Nolasco
"We're In The Business Of A Good Education": Schooled To Profit Or Educated To Create?, Nicole Nolasco
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In this inquiry, I ask the questions: What could my career, my life, and the world be like in the future? How could public education be impacted by the frenzy over accountability, standards, and the belief that competition and unrestricted capitalism will reform American schools, especially for students of color and from the working and lower classes? How can I, a high school English teacher, address pressing social and educational issues to affect change? I explore these questions through a work of fiction I have created. Theoretically drawing from critical pedagogy, I use arts based research and fiction as methodology …