Description: In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the "public" out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education.
Review Quotes: "So-called 'solutions' for improving public education interconnect in troubling ways--as is revealed insightfully and compellingly in this new and timely book. Ahlquist, Gorski, and Montaño have assembled an impressive collection of analyses that help us to unmask what are mere symptoms of broader movements to widen educational disparities, and to imagine alternatives and interventions with insight and conviction. Assault on Kids and Teachers should cause us to pause, and reimagine, and should be read immediately."--Kevin Kumashiro, Author, The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools; President-Elect, National Association for Multicultural Education