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1. Class and Higher Education
2. Book of the Month:Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools
3. Class and Education DVD Review: Declining By Degrees
4. September Actions
5. Featured Resources:Articles and Links to information on Class and Higher Education
6. Share Your Experience: Class Action Survey asks for your experiences with class and a college degree.
7. Call for Submissions
8. Upcoming Programs
9. Other Events
1. Class and Higher Education
It's time to head back to school, so this month Class Action's books, actions, resources, and survey explore issues of class in higher education. In the last month Class Action has worked with staff and students from:
Dartmouth College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College. In the coming months Class Action will be at Appalachian State
University, Bryn Mawr College, and Northwestern University.
Subsequent issues of e-news will look at class and K-12 education as well as continuing education. We'll be updating our Class and Education Resource Page regularly. As always, your feedback is very important to us.
2. Book of the Month: Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools
Beyond Silenced Voices rests on the belief that educators must be at the center of informing educational policy as we are the ones who are both able to listen to youth and design classrooms. As promised, this book’s target audience is teachers and educators, but Beyond Silenced Voices is a must read for any one interested in education and education reform. What motivates the book is a “shared belief in education that ‘could be’ and a shared worry about schools that currently reproduce class, race, and gender relations and privilege.”
More information and other recent book recommendations can be found in our book corner.
3. Film Review: Declining by Degrees
The documentary film, Declining by Degrees, takes a critical look at multiple aspects of higher education in America: from financial aid policies to classroom practices and faculty involvement. Four schools are examined: Amherst College (an elite liberal arts school), University of Arizona (a large public research university), Western Kentucky University (a regional state school), and the Community College of Denver. Read the full review here.
4. September Actions Against Classism
CampusActivism.org has tools and dowloadable resources for student activists. Search their site for actions and resources on class.
Campaign for America's Future Revitalizing Education Campaign
This organization believes that providing every child with a high quality public education is central to the American promise. All children should have the opportunity to soar as far as their intellect and effort can take them. This commitment reflects a democracy that values each of its children. It is also vital to our economic future, for in the information age, ideas count far more than muscle. It is this commitment that public schools must fulfill. Their website features actions around college affordability and student aid.
Find out more at our action page.
5. FEATURED RESOURCES: Articles and links to information on Class and Higher Education
Institute for Higher Education Policy
Policy reports and studies from this non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to foster access and success in postsecondary education.
College and Social Class: the Broken Promise of America
What if the geography of success in school, and using schools for personal success, almost perfectly mirrors previously established patterns of relative class privilege?
Community Colleges and Class: A Short History
This essay examines the contradictory role of the community college historically, reflecting its function in preserving the American class system.
Campus Revolutionary
Tony Marx has a radical plan to get more poor kids into top schools, starting with Amherst College.
A Legacy of Legacies
This 2004 Op Ed tackles on of Higher Education's most sacrosanct class issues.
6. SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE: Class and Higher Education
Higher education can be a class marker, the access channel to
"upward" mobility,or class liberator. What are the connections with class
and higher education for you? Let us know at our survey page.
Read the varied responses to last month's survey on Class and Immigration.
7. Call For Submissions
Class Action is guest editing an issue of Equity & Excellence in Education. We are currently soliciting manuscripts for a special theme issue on Class and Education. We welcome scholarly research, as well as, well-documented descriptive articles that examine topics of class and education. Please see our website for the complete call for submissions.
For more about the Aims and Scope of Equity and Excellence in Education please go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10665684.asp
8. Upcoming Programs
Opening Pandora's Box: Classism for Diversity Trainers/ Consultants
October 12, 2006
Newton, MA
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Straddlers Day
October 14, 2006
Day-long program
Amherst, MA
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Appalachian State University
October 24, 2006
Boone, N.C.
More info...
If you are interested in scheduling other events while we are in North Carolina, please contact us.
Class Privilege & How It Affects Our Moral Compass
October 26, 2006
Cambridge,MA
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What Katrina Revealed: Economic Apartheid in America
October 30, 2006
Tallahassee,FL
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Exploring Class
Greenfield, MA
November 4, 2006
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Class Action Groups
For information on joining a group please email us.
9. Other Events
"Si Kahn in Concert"
September 16, 2006
Northampton, MA
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Breaking Taboos: A Cross- Class Reading & Discussion Group
Hadley, MA
This summer group will resume in the fall. Please email us if you are interested in attending a meeting.
More info...
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