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Gorlewski, Julie A., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Students in public schools serving poor and working-class students are inundated by the effects of high-stakes examinations. Teachers are demoralized and students suffer substandard curricular and pedagogical experiences. These effects are articulated by students and teachers in the high school that provided the setting for the critical…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Resistance (Psychology), Neoliberalism
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Theoharis, George – Journal of School Leadership, 2008
This article details the struggles that principals faced as they sought to enact an equity oriented agenda. Utilizing a qualitative approach combined with principles of autoethnography, seven urban principals described the resistance they faced "at every turn" in their pursuit of equity and social justice. This resistance was produced by such…
Descriptors: Principals, Goal Orientation, Social Justice, Equal Education