BOOKS and ARTICLES by KATHY EMERY
Last Updated March 2008
NEW TITLE -- Lessons from Freedom Summer: Ordinary people building extraordinary movements
Forthcoming from Common Courage Press, Summer 2008 - really!!!!!
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PhD Dissertation
- The Business Roundtable and Systemic
Reform: How Corporate Engineered High-Stakes Testing Eliminated Community
Participation in the Developing of Educational Goals and Policies
Power Point presentation of Dissertation
Review Data and analysis of SFUSD -- A case study of the failure of High-Stakes Testing.
Articles and Speeches (unpublished)
- Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees or the Importance of Good Theory, originally presented at California Council of Teacher Educators (March, 2007), rewritten for Depaul University mini-conference, Mary 17, 2007.
- Education and Social Protest: What Mississippi
Can Teach Us Today
Paper presented at Roosevelt Universtiy Freedom, Chicago, IL, June 2006 - Origins and Purpose of No Child Left Behind workshop speech at SFSU faculty retreat at Asilomar, CA, Jan. 2005 (1500 words)
- High Stakes Testing and the New Tracking System keynote speech at conference for guidance counsellors at San Diego State University, December 2004 (5000 words)
- Lessons from Freedom Summer paper presented at Miami Universtiy Freedom Summer Reunion and Conference, September, 2004, published by Urban Habitat, Fall, 2007.
- The Politics of Ebonics: The Intersection of Voice, Language, Culture and Identity PhD qualification paper, 2002
- History of Alternative Schools in the United States PhD qualification paper, 2002
Publications
- Why is Corporate America Bashing our Public Schools? (Heinemann)
- Teaching materials for the teaching edition of Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, Volume 2 (The New Press)
- Teaching materials for the teaching edition of Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, Volume 1 (The New Press)
- "Corporate Control of Public School Goals: High-Stakes Testing in its Historical Perspective" in Spring 2007 issue (vol.34, #2) of Teacher Education Quarterly, pp. 25-44
- Monthly Essays for Western Edition, a local SF neighborhood newspaper (2006-2007)
