BOOKS and ARTICLES by KATHY EMERY

Last Updated April 2010

• Publications

Teaching Edition of A People's History of the U.S. by Howard Zinn from the publisher	Why is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools from the publisher	Lessons from Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements from the publisher

"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 (2006-2010)

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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• Articles and Speeches (unpublished)

The Parent/Teacher Conundrum: how corporate CEOs divide and conquer, keynote address presented on March 28, 2009 at the UTLA's Human Rights Committee's Annual Meeting.

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