Reviews for Rethinking America 1: An Intermediate Cultural Reader, Vol. 1

The average rating for Rethinking America 1: An Intermediate Cultural Reader, Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-22 00:00:00 CAROL SPOON David Hursh is a well renown educator who teaches at the Warner School at the University of Rochester. Published in 2007, this book is still very accurate in its telling of how the wave on Neoliberalism swept the country in the form of Globalization. Globalization was used as an excuse to give corporations and political elites to decry the size of government and reduce resources for society. Many programs that the government had to help the disadvantaged were cut and jobs that were unionized were moved overseas. Public schools have been taken down by using the excuse of "school choice", equality through high state's testing and standards that brought poor community schools down. Schools in poor communities can be closed, and privatized charter schools could be created with public money. Public housing torn down and replaced by "mixed income" housing allowing gentrification to begin. Hursh has s very good chapter on how Chicago has been used to create an even stronger two tired city. It amazes me that this was written during the Bush Administration and Barack Obama as president and Rahm Emmanuel as Mayor continued these policies that have continued to harm Chicago and the nation's schools. This book is so relevant today, I really appreciated reading it. Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-17 00:00:00 Emma Johnson Read this and took Dr. Hursh's class in 2008. I learned a lot about neoliberalism, Dewey, NCLB, Freire +. We studied works from Sneden, Bobbitt, and analyzed local and national statistics.