July 30, 2014 AT FIRST glance, Mark Naison is in an odd position - TopicsExpress

July 30, 2014 AT FIRST glance, Mark Naison is in an odd position to be advocating about K-12 public education. The 30-year veteran professor of African American History doesnt work in the public school system. Yet somehow, in the spring of 2013, he was at the center of the explosive birth of a massive online movement of educators angry at the attacks on their profession and the schools they work in. The Badass Teachers Association (BAT), initiated by Naison and Oklahoma teacher Priscilla Sanstead, struck a social media nerve, growing to 20,000 members on Facebook in the matter of weeks. Amorphous in its politics--spanning right- and left-wing opponents of the Common Core State Standards, for example--the BATs nevertheless embodied the growing realization nationally among teachers that they needed to get active to challenge corporatization of education........

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