Please pass the word to interested colleagues and students--and come  
yourself if you can!

Obama's "Race to the Top" Proposal for Education Reform:
How Should Social Justice Educators Respond?
Sarah Knopp
Los Angeles public school teacher, education activist, and member,
United Teachers Los Angeles

3:30 pm, Friday, December 4
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill, University of Vermont

Sarah Knopp has been a social justice high-school educator, teaching
government and economics, in the Los Angeles Unified School District
for 10 years. Co-chair of her school's chapter of United Teachers Los
Angeles, the teachers' union representing 48,000 members, she has been
involved in organizing for quality schools with parents and students,
for democratic reform inside her union, and for a wide array of social
justice issues in Los Angeles. Her articles and interviews have
appeared in Rethinking Schools, the International Socialist Review,
Counterpunch online and SocialistWorker.org, and she and her students
were featured in Jonathan Kozol's recent Shame of the Nation, speaking
out against the intensification of racial apartheid in U.S. public
schools.

Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the UVM English Department's Buckham Fund


Nancy Welch
Professor, Department of English
Chair, United Academics Delegates Assembly
400 Old Mill
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405




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