Remaking Schools in the Time of Coronavirus (4-22-20)

Published: March 1, 2021, 6:24 p.m.

b'Three leading voices in the struggle for education justice (Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, and Noliwe Rooks) discuss the remaking of public schools in the time of crisis. \\n\\nWhat has this crisis taught us about the role of public schools in society?\\n\\nWhat have we learned about what really matters in education during this time?\\n\\nWhen we re-open schools, what kind of education will we have, will we demand?\\n\\nThe Covid-19 crisis has upended public education around the country. Join three radical education activists in conversation about what this crisis means for public education now and how moving forward we can continue to fight for the schools our students deserve.\\n\\nJesse Hagopian is an award-winning educator and a leading voice on issues of educational equity and social justice unionism. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine and is the co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, and editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.\\n\\nNoliwe Rooks is the W.E.B Du Bois Professor of Literature at Cornell University and the author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education which won an award for non-fiction from the Hurston/Wright Foundation.\\n\\nWayne Au is a Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is a long-time Rethinking Schools editor, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives and author of A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/rDnP663yEbM\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'