Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

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Urbanski

Getting Schooled on Resistance

An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

Urbanski

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Synergy Publishing Group
29 February 2024

Decision theory: general; Education; Educational strategies & policy; Organisation & management of education

"Getting Schooled on Resistance examines the experience of one school's attempt to push back on the deficit model of education and represents the overall story of urban school reform. In this book, readers will find stories and critical analysis of what happens to students, teachers and schools when their ideas and thoughts are undervalued.

First published under the title Untangling Urban Middle School Reform: Clashing Agendas for Literacy Standards and Student Success in 2016, Getting Schooled on Resistance is timely and relevant for educators, policy makers and pre-service teachers today. We are arguing the same ""urban school reform"" narrative we've been arguing since the early 80's. We have moved from chalkboards to Smart Boards and Chromebooks, but the same narratives of students of poverty and failure exist. It's no wonder students rely so heavily on AI for their writing when their own ideas are undervalued or marked ""wrong.""

Urbanski's up-close and unflinching analysis illuminates how rigid accountability structures shift power away from the teachers and administrators who know the students best and in so doing perpetuate the ""bad student"" moniker, all too often becoming a self-fulling prophecy."

By: Urbanski
Imprint: Synergy Publishing Group
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9781960892126
ISBN 10: 1960892126
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 29 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform

"""Teachers and administrators who are trying to untangle new college- and career-ready standards and district curricular and assessment requirements, which is to say, almost everyone in education, will find this book extremely useful."" -Tom Fox, California State University ""This important and timely book is a valuable contribution to the field of education. It provides a critical view of the effects of current educational reform on teachers and students working in all ethnically and linguistically diverse urban middle schools."" -Jessica Early, PHD, Arizona State University ""This is a story of life at Rosa Parks Middle School as teachers, administrators and consultants take up a school improvement project, but is also the story of life in an urban middle school under No Child Left Behind and its larger operational context of generalized bureaucratized distrust."" Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, PHD, Executive Director, National Writing Project"