2012 BOOK TOUR
for
Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture
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Schedule of Events | Book Description and Reviews | Weblink
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Schedule of Upcoming Events (and recordings of previous events)
(updated 5/12/12)
March 5-9, 2012
California
March 5
Chapman University, College of Educational Studies
Argyros Forum 209A
4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
(click here to download a flyer)
March 6
University of California at Los Angeles, Center X
Co-sponsored by CA-NAME
(California Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education)
Dodd 121
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
(click here to download a flyer)
March 7
University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Education
Organized by the Berkeley Review of Education
Education-Psychology Library, Tolman Hall 2nd floor
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
(click here to download a flyer)
*** Update: Click here to view the video recording ***
March 8
University of San Francisco
School of Education (SOE) Room 101
4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
March 9
Modern Times Bookstore (San Francisco)
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
(click here for more information)
March 14
Chicago
March 14
Book Launch
and Fundraiser for CORE (Caucus of Rank and File Educators)
with Guest Speaker, Karen Lewis (President, Chicago Teachers Union)
University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
March 20-24
New York & New Jersey
March 20
New York University
Pless Hall, 3rd floor
7:00 p.m.
(click here to download a flyer)
March 21
Montclair State University
University Hall, Room 1020
5:30 p.m.
March 22
Hunter College of The City University of New York
Faculty Louge, 8th floor
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
(click here to download a flyer)
March 24
New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) Annual Conference
Julia Richmond Education Complex
8:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
*** Update: Click here to view the video recording of the lecture that includes student performances! ***
April 4
Chicago
April 4
The Public Square's Cafe Society
HumanThread Center, 645 W. 18th Street
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
(click here for more information)
April 15
Vancouver, Canada
April 15
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference
Book Exhibits, Teachers College Press Booth
Vancouver Convention Center
12:30 - 1:00 p.m
April 19
Ohio
April 19
Bowling Green State University
Student Research Forum on Diversity
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
*** Update: Click here to read the local news coverage of the Forum ***
April 30
Minnesota
April 30
Minneapolis Central Library
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
May 31 - June 1
New York
May 31 - June 1
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE)
New York Marriott Marquis Hotel
Lecture at 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
First Booksigning on 5/31 at 4:45-5:00 p.m.
Second Booksigning on 6/1 at 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Summer
Washington, DC
More information will be posted soon
September
Hawaii
More information will be posted soon
October
Massachusetts
More information will be posted soon
October
Minnesota
More information will be posted soon
October
Ohio
More information will be posted soon
November
New York
More information will be posted soon
November
Pennsylvania
November 28 - December 1
National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia
BAD TEACHER!:
How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture
By Kevin K. Kumashiro
Teachers College Press
February 2012
ISBN: 0807753211
ISBN13: 9780807753217
In his latest book, leading educator and author, Kevin Kumashiro, takes aim at the current debate on education reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public-school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher education masks the real, systemic problems. He demonstrates convincingly how current trends, like market-based reforms and fast-track teacher certification programs are creating overwhelming obstacles to achieving an equitable education for all children.
Bad Teacher! highlights the common ways that both the public and influential leaders think about the problems and solutions for public education, and suggests ways to help us see the bigger picture and reframe the debate. Compelling, accessible, and grounded in current initiatives and debates, this book is important reading for a diverse audience of policymakers, school leaders, parents, and everyone who cares about education.
Advance Reviews
"This book could be a springboard for teachers, teacher educators, and administrators to become more actively involved in advocating for a paradigm shift in our concept of education." -Grace Lee Boggs, Boggs Center
"Bad Teacher! is a provocative effort to reframe the current debate about school reform. Kumashiro explains why we should think differently about the prescriptions that are now taken for granted." -Diane Ravitch, New York University, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System
"The education reform movement has taken a page from the playbook of the gaming industry to ensure that children of color and poor children are highly represented among the losers! Kumashiro is a remarkable sleuth who guides us through the tangled web of ideology, venture philanthropy, and political chicanery as he shows us how the deck is stacked, how the game is played, who gains, and who loses. Join him in a clarion call to build a Movement to reclaim public education, to save our children from becoming serfs in the Information Age, and our democracy from becoming a relic of the past." -Robert P. Moses, The Algebra Project
"Bad Teacher! is oh-so-smart and timely. After decades of calculated disinvestment, our public schools are in terrible crisis. This book attacks head-on the ragged patchwork of "school reform" that has left us without even the vocabulary to frame what's gone wrong. Stuck in the binarisms of "winners and losers," "achievers and the undeserving," we have lurched from thoughtless intervention to madcap experimentation to (ad)venture capital tossed about as hysterically as confetti at a funeral. Against the backdrop of such tragic incoherence, Professsor Kevin Kumashiro's smart, quiet, lucid study cuts directly through the noise. With both empiricism and empathy, he wrestles our attention back to the needs of America's youth-the children whose collective education foretells our destiny as citizens." -Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School
"Kumashiro provides us with an engaging and insightful analysis of what's wrong with the current direction being taken to reform public education. He also offers wise and practical ideas on how we might go about improving the nation's schools. Anyone seeking to understand why so many of the reforms we have pursued have failed will benefit from reading this book." -Pedro A. Noguera, New York University
"Kevin Kumashiro unveils how corporate interests, an undue reliance onnon-research, and conventional 'common sense' remedies are in fact scapegoating teachers and exacerbating educational inequality. Courageous, blunt, and hopeful, Bad Teacher! offers a democratic vision for true educational change." -Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Unlike any other time in history, public education and teachers in particular are being blamed for our nation's shortcomings. In Bad Teacher! Kevin Kumashiro expertly examines the many forces working against public education, and how and why these forces are at play. In so doing, he lends hope that there is a better way forward for the American education system." -Dennis Van Roekel, President, National Education Association
More information available here or at www.tcpress.com.