*Read-in* Learning Is in Peril!: Treating Students like Data, Privatization, & Betsy DeVos are Dismantling Public Education

Learning is in peril! Schools are in crisis! In our neoliberal era, privatization, standardization, metrics-driven curricula, and Betsy DeVos threaten to dismantle public education and eradicate critical teaching and learning. Paranoia and panic about the future of education abounds, but the effects of neoliberalization on teaching and learning will extend far beyond the classroom. Together, we will read Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (2015) to discuss what is ultimately at stake when the neoliberal rationality transforms education (hint: it’s the entire democratic system of governance!).

Drawing on the tradition of radical teach-ins, Think Olio is making a call to intellectual arms with read-in’s on Sunday afternoons. 

In this spirit, we invite you to join us for Think Olio’s radical read-ins. Read-ins are meant to be practical, participatory, and oriented toward action. We’ll ask our professors to take a complex piece of scholarship and make it accessible and usable.

As a community of socially engaged thinkers, we will focus on thoughtful solutions to the problems that are dividing us.

Teacher: Hallie Scott

Tickets $10

Dean Machine

1037 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Hallie Scott is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation focuses on experiments in art and architecture pedagogy in the 1960s and 1970s. Currently an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College, Hallie previously worked as Education Director at the Wassaic Project in Dutchess County, New York.