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Wendy Warren - Department Profile

“Keepers of the Flame—A Conversation with Wendell Berry”
Warren, Wendy. Draft Horse Journal 56, no. 1 (Spring 2019).
“Lessons for the Teacher: Gaining Perspective"
Warren, Wendy. Voices from the Middle, 24, (2017).
“Team Work: Berea College Looks Back and Sees the Future”
Warren, Wendy. Draft Horse Journal Autumn 2016.
“Indian Education for All: One Teacher’s Story: Creating A New Future Or Living Up To Our Own History?”
Warren, Wendy Zagray. Phi Delta Kappan 88, No. 3 (2006): 198-203.

An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today's Education by Wendy Zagray Warren Public education plays a crucial role in crafting a nation's future. In the United States, education reform policy, particularly the reliance on large-scale, standardized testing, is a growing topic of national conversation and concern. An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today's Education demonstrates how centuries of propaganda have led us to accept the idea that test scores indicate something so valuable about human beings that they should be used to organize society. Drawing on decades of experience as an educator, author Wendy Zagray Warren unpacks the origins of this practice, inviting us to probe the ideologies underlying testing procedures and score interpretation and to evaluate the rationale for using test scores as the sole markers for academic achievement. From the beginning, large-scale tests have produced scores divided by race and class. Initially, these results aligned with the eugenic ideology of its creators. Warren shows that while the rhetoric used to justify test-based policy has changed, the model used to produce test scores remains much the same. Therefore, so do the outcomes of test-based policies, which continue to reproduce and reinforce the existing social hierarchy of the United States. The hope of equity lies in educators charting new paths and scholars around the world who are dreaming new educational paradigms into being. Ultimately, Warren invites policymakers, educators, and parents to explore the richness of possibility when education is designed around the belief that every child is worthy of the opportunity to thrive.
Call Number: (forthcoming)
Publication Date: August 1, 2023
Becoming a Holocaust Educator by Jennifer Lemberg (Editor); Alexander Pope (Editor); Tanya Baker (Foreword by); Sondra Perl (Afterword by)
Call Number: (on order)
Publication Date: 2021
"Teaching for Humanity" by W.Z. Warren
What Does It Mean to Be White in America? : breaking the white code of silence, a collection of personal narratives by Gabrielle David (Editor); Sean Frederick Forbes (Editor); Debby Irving (Introduction by); Tara Betts (Afterword by)
Call Number: 305.8009 W5545 2016 (Location: BC Scholarship)
Publication Date: 2016
“Choosing to See: What’s A White Girl Like Me Doing in a Reflective Place Like This?” by Wendy Warren
The Poverty and Education Reader by Paul C. Gorski (Editor); Julie Landsman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
"Becoming Upstanders: Humanizing Faces of Poverty Using Literature in a Middle School Classroom" by Wendy Warren