Race, MAP tests and privatization: The fight for equality in public education

Special guest speaker Dr. Steven Strauss, a Baltimore neurologist, Ph.D. linguistics scholar and frequent writer and speaker on education issues, to which he brings an anti-capitalist analysis and the passion of a parent with two children educated in public schools. A participant in the 2011 Save Our Schools protest in Washington, D.C. against corporatization and high-stakes testing, Dr. Strauss is also the author of Silent “E” Speaks Out, a political critique of “neo-phonics”.