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Machine generated contents note:pt. IPROBLEM --1.Hidden Aims of School Reform (Howard Ryan) --2.Teachers Unions that Partner with Billionaires (Howard Ryan) --pt. IIORGANIZING THROUGH RESISTANCE --3.School Community Says No to Privatization -- Beidler Elementary School, Chicago (Howard Ryan) --4.Uniting to Serve Students in the Face of a Hostile Principal -- Kelvyn Park High School, Chicago (Howard Ryan) --5.How to Fight Back: Teachers Unions against the Corporate Juggernaut (Joel Jordan) --pt. IIIORGANIZING THROUGH SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION --6.Critical Literacy, Democratic Schools, and the Whole Language Movement (Debra Goodman) --7.Teacher Solidarity Beats Scripted Instruction -- Soto Street Elementary School, Los Angeles (Howard Ryan) --8.Transformational Curriculum in South L.A. -- Crenshaw High School, Los Angeles (Howard Ryan and Joseph Zeccola).

While the political conflicts and social ramifications of public school reform are well known, basic questions about the movement remain underexamined. Who really leads it? What are their motives? We need a deeper understanding of this movement, its drivers, and its underlying aims.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

As the corporate takeover of public schools proceeds apace on a global scale, so too does the grassroots resistance. In the United States…. [o]ver 600,000 parents opted their children out of the tests in spring 2015; students have launched walkouts and boycotts; school boards are passing resolutions against overtesting; and teachers at a Seattle high school collectively refused to administer a test they deemed harmful to instruction. These actions and more demonstrate the hope and promise of public schools as sites for resilience and democratic resistance, even as corporate interests tighten their grip on schools under cover of "education reform." This article reflects strategically on the fight for public education, with a special focus on the Opt Out movement, which was recently the subject of a special issue of Monthly Review. My treatment applauds opting out as a tactic in an organizing toolkit, but rejects it as a strategy, and takes issue with the analysis of corporate school reform proffered by the leading advocates of Opt Out.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Strategies for building a competitive Green Party in the US are examined; in addition, the political implications of encouraging voters to split from the Democratic Party to form a third party are considered. It is argued that attempts to establish third parties in the contemporary US are hindered by such movements' use of top-down paradigms for achieving social change. Consequently, a strategy that emphasizes building a movement over realizing electoral results & possesses clear public policy objectives that adhere to the Green Party's platform promulgated during the 2000 presidential election is advocated. The need for Green Party leaders to decide when a split from the Democrats should be risked is expressed. It is stressed that the Green Party must balance its short- & long-term goals; moreover, in the wake of the 2000 presidential electoral results, it is stated that third parties must correctly judge the best time to launch their movements. It is concluded that a bottom-up model must be used to build a movement & that the Green Party's electoral goals can be pursued after the movement has a solid foundation. J. W. Parker

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Part I: The Race-Class Debate in Education -- Chapter 1: Race, Class, and the Hidden Aims of School Reform -- Chapter 2: Doing Class in Critical Race Analysis of Education -- Part II: Responses from Marxist Perspectives -- Chapter 3: Centering the Oppressed: Marxism and the Question of Race and Class -- Chapter 4: "Race," Class, and Education in South Africa -- Chapter 5: A Marxist Challenge to the Concept of "Race" -- Chapter 6: Race, Class, and Accumulation in Education: A Decolonial Marxist Perspective -- Chapter 7: A Marxist Critical Realist Perspective on Social Class and "Race" -- Chapter 8: The Exigency of Radical Class Politics: A Personal Journey -- Part III: Responses from Critical Race Theory and Allied Perspectives -- Chapter 9: Significance of a Race-Based Approach to Teacher Mobilization -- Chapter 10: Empire, Class, and the Struggle for Value in English Educational Reform -- Chapter 11: The Wall of Whiteness and White Supremacy Persists: A Critical Race Response -- Chapter 12: Academic Laboring with Critical Social Theories in a Torus of Education Reform -- Chapter 13: Capitalism and Caste -- Chapter 14: Critical Race Theory, Materialism, and Class -- Chapter 15: Engaging Islamophobic Racism in the Classroom -- Chapter 16: An Intersectional Reflection on Race, Class, and Education Reform -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

STUDY QUESTION: What are the reported data on cycles in ART, IUI and fertility preservation (FP) interventions in 2016 as compared to previous years, as well as the main trends over the years? SUMMARY ANSWER: The 20th ESHRE report on ART and IUI shows a progressive increase in reported treatment cycle numbers in Europe, with a decrease in the number of transfers with more than one embryo causing a reduction of multiple delivery rates (DR), as well as higher pregnancy rates and DR after frozen embryo replacement (FER) compared to fresh IVF and ICSI cycles, while the outcomes for IUI cycles remained stable. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Since 1997, ART aggregated data generated by national registries, clinics or professional societies have been collected, analysed by the European IVF-monitoring Consortium (EIM) and reported in 19 manuscripts published in Human Reproduction and Human Reproduction Open. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION: Yearly collection of European medically assisted reproduction (MAR) data by EIM for ESHRE. The data on treatments performed between 1 January and 31 December 2016 in 40 European countries were provided by either National Registries or registries based on personal initiatives of medical associations and scientific organizations. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS: In all, 1347 clinics offering ART services in 40 countries reported a total of 918 159 treatment cycles, involving 156 002 with IVF, 407 222 with ICSI, 248 407 with FER, 27 069 with preimplantation genetic testing, 73 927 with egg donation (ED), 654 with IVM of oocytes and 4878 cycles with frozen oocyte replacement (FOR). European data on IUI using husband/partner's semen (IUI-H) and donor semen (IUI-D) were reported from 1197 institutions offering IUI in 29 and 24 countries, respectively. A total of 162 948 treatments with IUI-H and 50 467 treatments with IUI-D were included. A total of 13 689 FP interventions from 11 countries including oocyte, ovarian tissue, semen and testicular tissue banking in pre-and postpubertal patients were reported. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE: In 20 countries (18 in 2015) with a total population of approximately 325 million inhabitants, in which all ART clinics reported to the registry, a total of 461 401 treatment cycles were performed, corresponding to a mean of 1410 cycles per million inhabitants (range 82–3088 per million inhabitants). In the 40 reporting countries, after IVF the clinical pregnancy rates (PR) per aspiration and per transfer in 2016 were similar to those observed in 2015 (28.0% and 34.8% vs 28.5% and 34.6%, respectively). After ICSI, the corresponding rates were also similar to those achieved in 2015 (25% and 33.2% vs 26.2% and 33.2%). After FER with own embryos, the PR per thawing is still on the rise, from 29.2% in 2015 to 30.9% in 2016. After ED, the PR per fresh embryo transfer was 49.4% (49.6% in 2015) and per FOR 43.6% (43.4% in 2015). In IVF and ICSI together, the trend towards the transfer of fewer embryos continues with the transfer of 1, 2, 3 and 4 embryos in 41.5%, 51.9%, 6.2% and 0.4% of all treatments, respectively (corresponding to 37.7%, 53.9%, 7.9% and 0.5% in 2015). This resulted in a proportion of singleton, twin and triplet DRs of 84.8%, 14.9% and 0.3%, respectively (compared to 83.1%, 16.5% and 0.4%, respectively in 2015). Treatments with FER in 2016 resulted in twin and triplet DR of 11.9% and 0.2%, respectively (vs 12.3% and 0.3% in 2015). After IUI, the DRs remained similar at 8.9% after IUI-H (7.8% in 2015) and at 12.4% after IUI-D (12.0% in 2015). Twin and triplet DRs after IUI-H were 8.8% and 0.3%, respectively (in 2015: 8.9% and 0.5%) and 7.7% and 0.4% after IUI-D (in 2015: 7.3% and 0.6%). The majority of FP interventions included the cryopreservation of ejaculated sperm (n¼7877 from 11 countries) and of oocytes (n¼4907 from eight countries). LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION: As the methods of data collection and levels of completeness of reported data vary among European countries, the results should be interpreted with caution. A number of countries failed to provide adequate data about the number of initiated cycles and deliveries. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS: The 20th ESHRE report on ART and IUI shows a continuous increase of reported treatment numbers and MAR-derived livebirths in Europe. Being already the largest data collection on MAR in Europe, continuous efforts to stimulate data collection and reporting strive for future quality control of the data, transparency and vigilance in the field of reproductive medicine. ; The study has no external funding and all costs were covered by ESHRE. ; peer-reviewed