Debates about education often revolve around standardized testing, taxes and funding, teacher certification, and more. This work presents an array of historical and contemporary alternatives to traditional schooling, demonstrating that children's capacity to learn decreases as soon as they enter bureaucratic, institutional facilities.
This book asks--and tries to answer--several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the...
Cultural Studies. African American Studies. CD format. Prisons are becoming an integral part of the U.S. economy, which means that there are stakes other than anti-crime stakes that will keep the prison industry expanding. It's acquiring its own momentum which, if we don't intervene and stop it now, we will be into the next millennium an increasingly incarcerated society. And that scares me, because I have been there -- from the CD. In this 54...
Renowned historian and professor emeritus at Boston University, Howard Zinn, helped spark a movement to reexamine what we call history. Here, he reverses traditional perspectives and presents history from the point of view of those who have been largely omitted from traditional texts, brilliantly reshuffling heroes and villains. 2 CDs.
