Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Beware the Roadbuilders: Literature as Resistance, P. L. Thomas invites us to look over his shoulder as he reads personally, feelingly and critically into literature to illuminate the truth beneath issues of equity, social justice and public education. Walsh says: "I don't want to give the impression that Beware the Roadbuilders is just another anti-education reform polemic, because it is much richer and much more interesting than that. This is a book for people who love books, who love reading and who love finding connections in literature that help us better understand our world. But the "roadbuilders" of the title are the education reformers, those plutocrats, pundits and politicians who have seized on urban education as the "civil rights issue of our time" and who, like the colonizing Europeans in Africa a century ago, seek to impose their own definitions of success and progress" |
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