Table of Contents
Foreword, Kris Gutierrez
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Fed Up with Tinkering
What We Already Know: Schools are Outdated
Children and Youth are Not Being Well-served: Standardization and Obsessive Testing Causes Damage
Traditional Purposes Reflect an Unproductive Binary of Worker/Citizen
Why Now?
Why Start Over?
Chapter Two: From an Equitable Starting Place
Equality of Intelligence
Equipotentiality
Produsage
Mass collaboration
Spatial Justice
Lunch Is Gross
Freedom Market Project
Guiding principles
Chapter Three: Toward Different Ends
Purposes of Schooling
The Common Good
Operationalizing the Neoliberal Common Good
Normative purposes
A New Purpose
Chapter Four: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Curriculum
"Instruction" and Pedagogy
Assessment
Guiding Principles
Chapter Five: Imagine We Climb the Mountain
Imagining the New
Knowledge Producing Schools
What Makes the Argument Plausible?
What We Need to Do Now
References