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1 online resource (xxiv, 225 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: $t Racing to the Top, Running for the Money, and Running Away from School Funding Equity / $r Todd Alan Price, John Duffy and Tania Giordani -- $g I. Chicago Public Schools: A Business Control Laboratory -- $t Commercial Club Curriculum: Big Business Against the Common School / $r Todd Alan Price and John Duffy -- $t A Dream Deferred: The Commodification of Chicago Public Schools Under Renaissance 2010 / $r Tania Giordani and Andrea Lee -- $t Citizen Teachers and Curricular Activism / $r John Duffy -- $t Standard Scores and Non-Standard Lives: A Recipe for Systemic Violence / $r Terry Jo Smith -- $t Science Left Behind: Reflections from a Chicago Public School Student of Science / $r Theresa Robinson -- $g II. Vouchers, Charters, and Mayoral Takeovers: Tools of the Great School Selloff -- $t Voucher Vultures: Blueprint for Restructuring Milwaukee Public Schools / $r Robert Miranda -- $t Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools / $r Todd Alan Price -- $t The Privatization Pandemic: Barbarians at the Schoolhouse Door / $r Geoff Berne -- $t Clash Over Charter Schools in Ohio: Ted Strickland's Challenge to the Obama-Duncan Wrecking Ball / $r Geoff Berne -- $g III. Neoliberalism: The Ideology of For-profit Public Education -- $t The New Corporate Agenda: Austerity, "Shared Sacrifice" and Union Busting / $r Jack Gerson -- $t Recovering Schools and Classrooms in the Recovery School District / $r Karen Roth -- $t Four Hundred Years of Chartering / $r John Duffy -- $t Rationalizing Standards, Rationing Opportunity: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Success in Haitian and U.S. Education / $r Baudelaire K. Ulysse -- $g IV. Reclaiming Education for the Public -- $t Corporate Siege and the Growing Resistance / $r Todd Alan Price -- $t This is What Democracy Looks Like! / $r T.J. Mertz -- $g Conclusion: $t Turning the Tide on Commercial Club "School Reform" / $r John Duffy and Todd Alan Price. |
| Summary |
At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who "drag down" their grade average on the state report card. This book describes the current state of the education system in the United States. Readers will be on the front lines of the protests in Madison, in the inner city public-turned-charter schools, and in the shoes of the teachers dealing with educational politics every day. By the end of this text, you may wonder: who's really winning in the Race to the Top? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public schools -- United States.
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Public schools. |
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United States. |
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Proprietary schools -- United States.
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Proprietary schools. |
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Privatization in education -- United States.
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Privatization in education. |
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Business and education -- United States.
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Democracy and education -- United States.
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Business and education. |
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. |
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Democracy and education. |
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Price, Todd Alan, editor.
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Duffy, John, 1947- editor.
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Giordani, Tania, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Defending public education from corporate takeover Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., [2013] 9780761860495 (DLC) 2012951106 |
| ISBN |
9780761860501 ebook |
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0761860509 |
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9780761860495 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780761860501 (eISBN) |
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