EDUCATION AND ITS ROLE IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES
All-Day Symposium
Friday, October 5, 2012
Suggested Readings:
Panel I: Justice, Citizenship, and the Schools
Howe, K. (1997) A radical liberal framework (Chapter 2). In Understanding equal educational opportunity: Social justice, democracy, and schooling. New York: Teachers
College Press.
Howe, K. & Meens, D. (2012). NCLB and its wake: Bad news for democracy. National
Education Policy Center Policy Brief. (Draft.)
Hanson, S. & Howe, K. (2011). The potential for deliberative democratic civic education.
Democracy and education. 19(2): 1-9. http://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol19/iss2/3
Valenzuela, A. & Brewer, C. (2010). Submerged in a neoliberal utopia: Disruption, community dislocation and subtractive citizenship. In VanHeertum, R., Torres, C., &
Olmos, L. Educating the global citizen: Globalization, educational reform, and the politics of equity and inclusion.
Oak Park, Il: Bentham Science Publishers.
Lopez, P.D., Valenzuela, A.& Garcia, E. (2011). The critical ethnography for public policy. In Levinson & Pollock (Eds.), Companion to the Anthropology of Education.
Maiden, MA:Wiley-Blackwell Press, ,pp. 547-563.
Kahne, J. & Westheimer, J. (2006). The Limits of Efficacy: Educating Citizens for a
Democratic Society. PS: Political Science and Politics. April. 39(2), 289-296. Cover article.
Westheimer, J. (2009). No Child Left Thinking: Democracy At-Risk in American
Schools and What We Need to Do About It. Ch. 19 in Shapiro (ed.) Education and Hope in Troubled Times: Bold Visions of Change for Our Children’s World.
New York:
Routledge. 259-271
Westheimer, J. (2007). Politics and Patriotism in Education. Ch. 13 in Westheimer, J.
(Ed.). Howard Zinn (Foreword). Pledging allegiance: The politics of patriotism in
America’s schools. NY: Teachers College Press.
Panel II: The Old Civil Rights, the New Civil Rights, and the Future of the Teaching
Profession
Cruz, J. & Haycock, K. (in press). Occupy higher education: Why college should own the effort to improve student success. Change Magazine.

Lynch, M., Engle, J., & Cruz, J. (2010). Subprime opportunity: The unfulfilled promise of for-profit colleges and universities. Washington, DC: The Education Trust.
Haycock, K. (2011). Making education work for all students. In Miller, T. (Ed.). The dream of a nation: Inspiring ideas for a better America. SEE Innovations.
Education Trust (2006). Yes We Can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America. Washington, DC: The Education Trust.
Schott Foundation. (2010). Yes We Can: The Scott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males . Cambridge, MA: Schott Foundation for Public Education.
Jackson, J. (2009). From miracle to movement: Mandating a national opportunity to learn. In The state of Black America 2009 : pp. 61-70.
Keynote Address: What Community Provides: The Role of Partnerships in the
Transformation of Schools
Noguera, P. & Wells (2011). The politics of school reform: A broader and bolder approach for Newark. Berkeley review of education. 2(1): 5-25
Noguera, P. (2012) Creating the schools we need. Bank Street Journal.
27 (Spring 2012).
Noguera, P. (2009). The achievement gap and the future of education policy in the
Obama administration. New Labor Forum. 16 (Spring).