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April West
September 11, 2010
Alana Kumbier
Alana talks with public school teacher April West about progressive education, charter schools, and teacher and student assessment in the age of No Child Left Behind.
April also explains how she came to re-evaluate her perspectives on standardized testing and social justice in education.
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About Our Guest
April is the humanities teacher at the Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School (BArT). She has many years of both college and high school teaching experience. Before teaching high school, she provided instruction in writing and cultural studies for four years at The Ohio State University.
She has a BA from Bennington College with a thematic degree in Social Conflict, an MA in Comparative Cultural Studies from The Ohio State University, and an MAT from Bennington College’s Center for Creative Teaching.
She is an alternative country music enthusiast and has many artistic interests including quilting and the fiber arts, costume design, paper collage, and woodworking. She also has a great interest in local histories and community issues.
Music in This Episode
Intro: “The Remainder,” Rosehips from the album Rosehips.
Intermission: “Your Contemporaries,” The Lindsay from the album Dragged Out.
Outro: “Enough,” Rosehips from the album Rosehips.
Resources
Media
Check out Emily Hanford’s audio documentary, Testing Teachers at American Radio Works. You can download the radio program, listen online, or read the transcript.
The director of An Inconvenient Truth has produced a new documentary, Waiting for “Superman.” The film examines the current state of public education in the United States through the experience of five children.
Do Charter Schools Worsen Inequality of Two-Tiered Education System, or Help Address It? This question was posed in a roundtable discussion sponsored and produced by the left-leaning TV/radio news program Democracy Now! in February 2010.
Statistics
Get Fast Facts about education in the United States from the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. For more in-depth data, visit the site of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
State Education Data Profiles allow you to compare up to four states on key educational data, including demographics, finances, enrollment, public libraries, and postsecondary education.
The National Education Association (NEA) provides enrollment, attendance, salaries, per student outlay, and other data at the state level. The Status of the American Public School Teacher report, published every 5 years, includes statistics about public school teachers in the U.S. including educational background, teaching experience, political leanings, etc.
Finding Articles
The Education Resources Information Center, or ERIC, is probably the best place to start for finding articles on issues related to education. ERIC is a major education index includes citations and abstracts to journals, books, and documents in all fields related to education.
You may also able to access other article databases on education through your university or public library.
Selected Articles
2010
Green, Elizabeth. 2010. “Building a better teacher.” The Times Magazine. March 2.
Huberdeau, Jeff. 2010. “BarT deemed ‘high growth’ for MCAS Scores.” North Adams Transcript. September 17.
Klein, Jeol. 2010. “Waiting for the Teacher’s Union.” The Huffington Post. September 24.
Ripley, Amanda. 2010. “What makes a great teacher?” The Atlantic Magazine. January/February.
Schworm, Peter. 2010. “Many strong MCAS results.” The Boston Globe. September 8.
Smith, Jenn. 2010. “MCAS results show gains.” Berkshire Eagle. September 17.
2009
Vaznis, James. 2009. “MCAS scores fall shy of target.” The Boston Globe. September 17.
2008
Tough, Paul. 2008. “A teachable moment.” The New York Times. August 14.
Tough, Paul. 2008. “24/7 school reform.” The Way We Live Now. The Times Magazine. September 5.
2007
Jan, Tracy. 2007. “The long road back: The fate of a school and its headmaster’s career rest on restoring what was once a Boston educational icon.” The Boston Globe. September 16.
Books
Apple, Michael W. 1979. Ideology and curriculum. Routledge education books. London: Routledge & K. Paul.
Darling-Hammond, Linda, and John Bransford. 2005. Preparing teachers for a changing world: what teachers should learn and be able to do. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Davis, Brent. 2004. Inventions of teaching a genealogy. Mahwah (N.J.): L. Erlbaum.
Delpit, Lisa D. 1995. Other people’s children: cultural conflict in the classroom. New York: New Press.
Farr, Steven. 2010. Teaching as leadership: the highly effective teacher’s guide to closing the achievement gap. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Freire, Paulo. 2000. Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.
Goldhaber, Daniel D., and Jane Hannaway. 2009. Creating a new teaching profession. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Merseth, Katherine K., Kristy Cooper, John Roberts, and Mara Casey Tieken. Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools.
Johnson, Susan Moore. 2004. Finders and keepers: helping new teachers survive and thrive in our schools. The Jossey-Bass education series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Kozol, Jonathan. 2008. Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. Paw Prints.
Kozol, Jonathan. 2010. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. Paw Prints.
Lemov, Doug. 2010. Teach like a champion: 49 techniques that put students on the path to college. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
McCarthy, Cameron. 1998. The uses of culture: education and the limits of ethnic affiliation. Critical social thought. New York: Routledge.
Payne, Ruby K. 2005. A framework for understanding poverty. Highlands, Tex: aha! Process.
Shor, Ira, and Caroline Pari. 1999. Education is politics: critical teaching across differences, K-12. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann.
Shor, Ira. 1992. Empowering education: critical teaching for social change. University of Chicago Press.
Tough, Paul. 2008. Whatever it takes: Geoffrey Canada’s quest to change Harlem and America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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