No Citizen Left Behind

Name: No Citizen Left Behind
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ISBN: 9780674284241

ISBN-10: 0674284240

ISBN-13: 9780674284241

Edition: 2014

Authors: Meira Levinson

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While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left Behind. "No Citizen Left Behind" argues that students must be taught how to upend and reshape power relationships directly, through political and civic action. Drawing on political theory, empirical research, and her own on-the-ground experience, Levinson shows how "de facto" segregated urban schools can and must be at the center of…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Meira Levinson is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, following eight years as a teacher in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.