Lawrence Baines

Professor and Director, Teacher Education, Berry College

Chapter Member: Alabama SSN

Areas of Expertise:

Education

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About Lawrence

Baines' research focuses on adolescent literacy, teacher preparation, and education policy. Baines is a former public teacher who has worked in hundreds of schools in the USA and abroad. Baines is author of 13 books and 150 articles. His former students are remarkably productive writers and researchers.

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Contributions

Privatizing K-12 Public Education: How The Profit Motive Changes Schools

Memo, May 2020

In the News

Opinion: "Are The Liberal Arts in Trouble?," Lawrence Baines, November 5, 2021.

Opinion: "Privatization of America's Public Institutions," Lawrence Baines, Youtube, March 12, 2020.

Interviewed in "Privatizing America's Public Institutions: The Story of the American Sellout," The Rick Smith Show, March 1, 2020.

Opinion: "Beware! Money, Charters and Vouchers," Lawrence Baines (with Jim Machell), Tulsa World, November 16, 2019.

Opinion: "Seven Concerning Facts about Privatization of the Military," Lawrence Baines (with NonDoc), September 13, 2019.

Opinion: "When ‘Highly Qualified’ Teachers Aren’t," Lawrence Baines, Federal/Opinion, EDW, March 7, 2017.

Publications

Privatizing America's Public Institutions: The Story of the American Sellout (Peter Lang, 2019).

The military, k-12 public schools, public universities and colleges, and prisons have been transmogrified into enterprises focused on generating profits for a select few. In many cases, privatization limits accessibility, promotes segregation, increases costs, and reduces quality.

"The Teachers We Have, the Teachers We Can Get" (with Jim Machell). Teachers College Record. ID Number: 22963 (2019).

Response to teacher flight in Oklahoma, as in other states, has focused on finding warm bodies to fill classrooms, not on teacher quality. As a result, the neediest students are often taught by the least qualified teachers.