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Title Defending public education from corporate takeover / edited by Todd Alan Price, John Duffy, Tania Giordani
Published Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Incorporated, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 225 pages)
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?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Public schools -- United States
Proprietary schools -- United States
Privatization in education -- United States
Business and education -- United States
Democracy and education -- United States
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Privatization in education
Business and education
Democracy and education
Proprietary schools
Public schools
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Price, Todd Alan, editor
Duffy, John, 1947- editor.
Giordani, Tania, editor
LC no. 2021676171
ISBN 9780761860501
0761860509