Mike Rose, UCLA professor of education and author of “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education,” has written a new book, “Public Education Under Siege,” which focuses on alternative perspectives concerning education reform in America.
While many agree that American education is facing serious problems, Rose’s new book departs from more than a decade of focus on traditional testing and accountability. Thought-provoking essays, a number of which first appeared in Dissent Magazine, present alternative perspectives on school reform, and it includes an eye toward some of the systemic causes of problems with American schools.
The book seeks to fill in the many gaps in the mainstream view of school reform, among them, topics that are typically not addressed by government, philanthropists who invest in education or even high-profile figures in the reform movement.
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