When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination

If the right‐wing billionaires and apostles of corporate power have their way, public schools will become “dead zones of the imagination”, reduced to anti‐ public spaces that wage an assault on critical thinking, civic literacy and historical memory. Market‐driven educational reforms exhibit contempt for teachers and distrust of parents, repress creative teaching, destroy challenging and imaginative programs of study, and treat students as mere …