Badass Teachers Unite!: Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism

An academic exposes how dominant education reform policies destabilize low-income communities.

In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education "reform" policies that undermine their power and creativity.

Naison shows how dominant education policy systematically hurts the very children it clai...