What Parents Know: Risk and Responsibility in United States Education Policy and Parents’ Responses

In this special issue exploring parents’ responses to neoliberal policy changes, especially shifting notions of risk and responsibility, this article provides a historical account of local and national policy initiatives in the contemporary United States that have increased risk and placed responsibility for this risk on the shoulders of parents (as well as educators). The opening section of the paper reviews major recent policy documents and initiatives in the United States, from the landmark 1983 report ‘A Nation at Risk’ to the current age of test-based accountability. In the following sections, the paper explores what two Chicago parents themselves had to say about risk and responsibility in public schooling. What, in their views, were the actual risks? What did they think their responsibilities were, as parents? What did they do in response to the shifting policyscape

Conference Program: 2011 Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking

Thursday, September 29Welcome Reception Friday, September 30Session 1.1 International Trafficking Issues ISession 1.2 Local and Regional Trafficking Issues ISession 1.3 Legislation and Law Enforcement ISession 2.1 Collaboration ISession 2.2 US Teens & Young AdultsSession 2.3 Economic & Market Analysis IPlenary Session: Think Globally, Act Locally: Panel on Human Trafficking in Nebraska and the Great PlainsSession 3.1 World TraffickingSession 3.2 Collaboration InitiativesSession 3.3 Legislation and Law Enforcement IISession 4.1 International labor TraffickingSession 4.2 Public Action ISession 4.3 Legislation and Law Enforcement IIIFilm: Sex and Money (a documentary on sex trafficking and the sex industry in America) Saturday, October 1Session 5.1 Community Models ISession 5.2 Public Action IISession 6.1 Community Models IISession 6.2 Theory and MethodsSession 7.1 RehabilitationSession 7.2 India and Sri LankaSession 8.1 Economic and Market Analysis IISession 8.2 Men and Boys Participant/Presenters Email addresse

What Makes Hope Possible. A Book Review of \u3cem\u3eStrike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity\u3c/em\u3e

This is a positive review of Strike for America, by Micah Uetricht

The Chicago Teachers Strike and Its Public

This article considers the 2012 Chicago Teachers Strike in light of John Dewey\u27s The Public and Its Problems. It engages Dewey\u27s conceptualization of practical reason to challenge the educational reform movement\u27s commitment to technocratic decision-making

High Stakes Motherhood and School Choice

Because it does not conform to the standard conception of a profession, motherhood might seem to have no place in this issue. A woman requires no special expertise, no knowledge, skill or educational degree to become a mother. Furthermore, the work she does as a mother is unpaid, sometimes even unrecognized as work. These two features of motherhood – its accessibility to any fertile girl or woman, and the fact that society provides no financial compensation to mothers for their hard work--are often lamented, though towards very different political ends. In fact, motherhood might be considered the very opposite of a profession: a status dependent upon biological, cultural and social factors, not educational ones, and involving labor done without pay or recognized steps to advancement

What Makes Hope Possible, A Book Review of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

A review of M. Uetricht\u27s book Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity written by Amy B. Shuffelton