Meira Levinson's " No Citizen Left Behind" - perhaps uniquely - combines the tight reasoning of political philosopher with the pathos and deep experience of a public school classroom teacher working in some of Atlanta and Boston's poorest schools. The result is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that challenges popular notions of how schools do and ought to teach students about democracy and civic /5(10). Not for the students of Walden Middle School, an all-black, low-income, urban public school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several years. And in her latest book, No Citizen Left Behind, Levinson argues that these students are not alone. As the number of schools serving poor, urban, de facto segregated populations is steadily increasing, more and more students are deprived of . Levinson, M. (). No Citizen Left Behind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.,() Levinson, M. (). Why Education is Not ‘The Civil Rights Issue of Our Time.’ Guest blogger on Rick Hess Straight Up. Janu.,() Levinson, M. () Benefits of Civic Education: Increased Equality and Narrowed Civic Empowerment Gap.
Stud Philos Educ () DOI /s Response to the Review Symposium of No Citizen Left Behind Meira Levinson Published online: 14 June Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht I have benefited enormously from engaging with all four reviews. Most of my interlocutors up until now have come from liberal, pragmatic, policy-oriented, or neo-liberal. the reading of No Citizen Left Behind by Meira Levinson and Holland's sage words resonated loud and clear. With a title that plays off of the No Child Left Behind mandate, Levinson's text argues for robust civics education across primary and secondary educational levels, with. No Citizen Left Behind. by Meira Levinson. Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ; Thanks for Sharing! You submitted the following rating and review. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them.
Meira Levinson’s thought-provoking book, No Citizen Left Behind, is a work in non-ideal theory, that is, in theory that is “relevant to the very non-ideal facts on the ground” (Levinson , p. 20). Levinson opens the book with stories of her students at Walden Middle School in Atlanta, highlighting the teachers’ focus on African and. In No Citizen Left Behind, Levinson argues that a truly egalitarian society starts with civic empowerment both in and out of the classroom. More than just tweaking the curriculum, schools should seek to exemplify the democratic process that most inner-city children rarely have the opportunity to witness firsthand. No Citizen Left Behind. While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students' individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the.
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