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An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution:

United Opt Out's Test of Courage
Edited by: Morna McDermott, Peggy Robertson, Rosemarie Jensen, Ceresta
Smith, United Opt Out National
Contributions by: Rosemarie Jensen, Shaun Johnson, Morna McDermott,
Laurie Murphy, Peggy Robertson, Ruth Rodriguez, Tim Slekar, Ceresta
Smith, United Opt Out National
Forward by Ricardo Rosa, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists interested in
reclaiming our public schools and reclaiming the public narrative around education
policy. The book infuses research about the recent history of education policy reform, the
strategies United Opt Out uses for fighting back against these policies, and proposes
solutions that work to create sustainable, equitable, anti-racist, democratic and
meaningful public education. This book is for anyone interested in an insiders look
behind the scene of forming an organization, or leading a resistance. Simultaneously the book provides scholarly-based
research about the broader issues, policies and data around education reform, and the opt out movement.
Education policy has been heating up ever since NCLB but especially since the roll out of Race to The Top and the
Common Core State Standards. Nationally publicized debates and discord over these policies are garnering public attention
of teachers, parents, and whole communities. We hope this book will add to the library of other recent books such as
Mercedes Schneiders A Chronicle of Echoes (2014), Diane Ravitchs Reign of Error (2013) and Bowers & Thomas (eds)
Detesting and Degrading Schools (2012), that have exposed the complex corporate interest in shaping education policies
and the destructive influence such policies will have on our children and on our democracy. This book uses first person
narratives infused with research and scholarship, to create personalized accounts into the life of education activism. Each
chapter includes an Activists Handbook section to provide support for our activist/
readers in their own efforts. We hope that our experiences will inspire others to take
this charge upon themselves as well.
CONTENTS:
Acknowledgements
Forward by Ricardo Rosa
Introduction- by Peg Robertson
CH 1: Predators, Colonizers, and Corporate-Model Reform- By Morna McDermott
CH 2: Who We Are- By Morna McDermott
CH 3: Changing the Narrative- By Ceresta Smith
CH 4: Occupy This- By Peg Robertson
CH 5: Taking Action- By Shaun Johnson, Ceresta Smith, and Morna McDermott
CH 6: Every Narrative Has a Lens: The Value of Social Justice- By Ceresta Smith and
Morna McDermott
Ch 7: A Case Study in Reform Failure: The Inconvenient Truth- By Ruth Rodriguez
Ch 8: Strategizing 101- By Laurie Murphy
CH 9: Where Do We Go From Here -By Tim Slekar
Conclusion- By Rosemarie Jensen
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