[Bridging_the_digital_divide] The Underground History of American Education

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John Taylor Gatto is a former New York City school teacher. During his 
30-year career, he has taught at 5 different public schools, has had 
his teaching license suspended twice for insubordination, and was once 
covertly terminated while on medical leave. He has also won the New 
York City Teacher of the Year award three times and the New York State 
Teacher of the Year award once during the final year of his career. The 
whole time he has been an outspoken critic of the school system. Nine 
years after leaving his career, he published The Underground History of 
American Education (full text available here), in which he puts forth 
his insider's vision of what is wrong with American schooling. His 
verdict is not what you'd expect: the school system cannot be fixed, 
Gatto asserts, because it has been designed not to educate.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/06/1722203

The text:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm

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