Jan 16th - Some History of Education in America, Part I
Waiting for Superman. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Paramount Vantage, 2010. Film.
Zimmerman, Jonathan. "When Teachers Talk Out of School." New York Times. New York Times, 3 Jun. 2011.
-- "How U.S. Goes Wrong in Education." Philly.com, Philadelphia Media Network, LLC, 28 Sept. 2006. Web.
-- "It's Time for Schools of Education to Embrace New Routes to Teacher Certification." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2010.
-- "American History - Right and Left." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 17 March 2010.
-- "Why we shouldn't segregate our history; Ethnic studies end up shortchanging everyone." Philly.com, Philadelphia Media Network, LLC, 25 May 2010. Web.
Jan 23rd - Some History of Education in America, Part II
A Nation Accountable: twenty-five years after A nation at risk. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Education, 2008.
Ripley, Amanda. "Your Child Left Behind." The Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly Group, Dec 2010. Web.
Jan 30 - Autonomous Education in Mexico
Baronnet, Bruno. "Rebel Youth and Zapatista Autonomous Education." Latin American Perspectives 35.4 (2008): 112-124.
Davies, Jessica. "The Assault on Autonomous Education in Southeast Mexico." Upside Down World. 15 Nov 2011. Web.
Feb 6th - Teacher training/education in Finland
Sahlberg, Pasi. "The Professional Educator: Lessons From Finland." American Educator. Summer 2011. Web.
-- "Highly educated teachers the key to success." Lateline. Australian Broadcast Corporation. 28 Feb 2012. Web.
Feb 13th - Targeted Solutions to Problems in Education
Two Million Minutes. Dir. Chad Heeter. Broken Pencil Productions, 2008. Film.
Feb 20th - America: No Child Left Behind: Then and What Now?
Keller, Bill. "An Industry of Mediocrity." New York Times. New York Times, 20 Oct 2013. Web.
Paul, Anne Murphy. "Likely to Succeed." New York Times. New York Times, 22 Aug 2013. Web.
Lemann, Nicholas. "Schoolwork." The New Yorker. Conde Nast, 27 Sep 2013. Web.
Phelan, Jay and Julia Phelan. "Teaching to the (Right) Test." Inside Higher Ed 5 Sep 2013. Web.
Brill, Steven. "The Rubber Room: the Battle Over New York City's Worst Teachers." The New Yorker. Conde Nast, 31 Aug 2009. Web.
Samuelson, Robert J. "Why School 'Reform' Fails." Newsweek. Newsweek LLC, 9 Jun 2009. Web.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30th ann. ed. Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Continuum, 2005. Print. Chapter 2.