![]() Since the publication of his book Unequal by Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality in 2008, scholar, educator, and activist Au has been a prominent critic of US Written before the teacher rebellion, Wayne Au’s A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World provides a framework to understand the roots and the significance of this resistance. Instead, neoliberals view public education-one of the remaining bastions of social support-as a system that should be privatized. Championed by Democrat and Republican education secretaries Arne Duncan and Betsy DeVos, neoliberal policies directly oppose the premise that education is a right. These assaults are part of the neoliberal formula that pairs austerity measures for the working class with privatization of public institutions. ![]() Their actions were spurred by legislative attacks on their pensions, health care, and school budgets. ![]() ![]() This year, there was a nationwide K-12 educator uprising: West Virginia teachers went on strike, Oklahoma teachers organized walkouts, and Kentucky teachers conducted work stoppages. ![]()
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