Ghosts of No Child Left Behind (Counterpoints) - Softcover

Carris, Joanne M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433105470 ISBN 13: 9781433105470

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Ghosts of No Child Left Behind politically situates curriculum within a historically and critically informed context to understand structural forces that have contributed to the creation of a population of adolescents who read below a 3rd grade level equivalent. This analysis additionally proposes a reconceptualization of literacy curriculum within a critical discourse to facilitate self-actualizing pedagogy for non-reading adolescents€”some of whom are incarcerated. Rooted in a complex understanding of teaching, learning, and knowledge, this book presents vital information to policymakers, administrators, and educators for improving literacy instruction, curriculum, and policy. It can also inform the general public, especially parents, so that they may advocate for an educational infrastructure that promotes empowering literacy development for every student, including non-reading adolescents and younger struggling readers. This book is a phenomenal resource in teacher

About this title

About the Author:

Joanne M. Carris is a literacy specialist and educational consultant in New York City. As an educator for over fifteen years, she has worked in alternative high schools, including juvenile detention center schools. In public schools, she has specialized in literacy development with adolescents who are emerging readers. Carris has a PhD in Urban Education from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, a MA in Bilingual Special Education from the Bank Street College of Education, and a MA in Philosophy of Education from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Review:

«Joanne Carris’s new book, ‘The Ghosts of No Child Left Behind’, is a strikingly important and well-crafted guide to understanding and addressing a critical problem in American education and society – non-reading adolescents in the light of punitive public policy embodied in NCLB and its successors. How can an allegedly socially just democratic society ignore the standing of these children – many of them of color – many of them facing leaving school without graduating and suffering the consequences? Dr. Carris shines a bright light on the issue and asks us if we can tolerate a problem – not the students but our policies – that virtually guarantees poor health, a need for future public economic support, low lifetime earnings, underemployment, and, for far too many, incarceration. This is the book that helps us understand that moving to help these children is not only a moral obligation and within our power, but is also cost effective in the face of the consequences of neglect. It should be for every educator who cares and, just as importantly, for every thinking voter and policy maker.» (Nicholas M. Michelli, Presidential Professor The Graduate Center The City University of New York)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1433105470
• ISBN 13: 9781433105470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 221