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Engaging with Education Scholar John Gatto
| Synopsis: |
John Taylor Gatto is an American retired school teacher and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and of what he characterizes as the one-sided
nature of discourse on education and the education professions. |
| Start Time: |
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:00 PM |
| End Time: |
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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| Location: |
Douglass Campus Center |
| Address: |
100 George Street |
| Campus: |
Douglass |
| Room: |
Trayes Hall |
| City, State, Country: |
New Brunswick,
NJ US
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| Fee: |
N/A |
| Speaker: |
John Gatto |
| Sponsor: |
GES-SAC, Busch Campus Dean |
| Category: |
Talk, Lecture, Seminar |
| Contact Name: |
Cara Macaluso |
| Contact Email: |
caramac@echo.rutgers.edu |
| Contact Phone: |
(732) 932-7442 |
| Additional Information: |
John Taylor Gatto is an American retired school teacher of 29 years and 8 months, and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical
of compulsory schooling and of what he characterizes as the one-sided nature of discourse on education and the education professions.
Mr. Gatto did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia, then served in the U.S. Army medical corps at Fort Knox,
Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Following army service he did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva
University, the University of California, and Cornell.
John Gatto is the author of a number of bestselling books, including Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The
Exhausted School, A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, The Underground History of American Education,
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling.
Sponsored by Graduate School of Education Student Affairs Committee, Busch Campus Dean, Rutgers Libertarians, Second Reformed Church, Rutgers Leadership Empowerment Society, Tent State University, Empower Our Neighborhoods |
