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The School Reform Landscape
Fraud, Myth, and Lies
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2013
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In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. They scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the ongoing tensions between the need to keep a vibrant unitary system of public education and the ongoing assault by corporate and elite interests in creating a dual system. Some of events, proposals, and policies critiqued include the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, No Child Left Behind, the lies of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and other common reform schemes. The authors provide an evidence-based contrarian view of the free-market reform ideas and pierce the veil of the new reform policies to find that they are built not upon empirical evidence, but instead rest solidly on foundations of myth, fear, and lies. Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, democratic system of education are presented.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0257-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0259-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
172
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Liberty and Justice for All No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter Two: The Education Reform King with a Styrofoam Crown No access Pages 19 - 36
Chapter Three: A Catalogue of Reform Fallacies No access Pages 37 - 52
Chapter Four: The No Child Left Behind Act No access Pages 53 - 70
Chapter Five: The Path of High-Risk Implications for Public Education No access Pages 71 - 84
Chapter Six: High Stakes, Low Quality No access Pages 85 - 102
Chapter Seven: World-Class Standards That Are Too Big to Fail No access Pages 103 - 116
Chapter Eight: Charter Schools: Separate but Legal No access Pages 117 - 142
Chapter Nine: What Now? A Way Forward No access Pages 143 - 168
