Unraveling Reform Rhetoric: What Educators Need to Know and Understand

Jeff Swensson; John Ellis; Michael Shaffer

doi:10.5771/9781475850772

Summary

Traditional public educators in the US have too little information about the free market of schooling, otherwise known as privatization/choice education. As a result, traditional public education colleagues have lost sight of where they are and how they got there. In this primer, educators, parents/caregivers, and policymakers are offered an examination of the forces and factors that undercut traditional public education and an inquiry into the primary purpose and quality instruction that distinguishes traditional public education from free market schooling.

Without knowing about the educational misdirection fostered by free market schooling, traditional public education in the US cannot invest in continuous improvement necessary to enrich the futures of all students and our nation’s democracy. The time has come for traditional public educators to study how we got out on a limb. This book explores the nature of free market schooling and discusses the information that traditional public educators need to muster a defense of purpose, quality, social justice, and how to think. Practical and theoretical insights throughout this book focus on professional practice in traditional public education as the means by which colleagues can assert excellence on behalf of all students while thwarting the negative impacts of free market schooling.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-5075-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-5077-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 143
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter One: The Primary Purpose of Traditional Public Education versus Free Market Theory No access Pages 5 - 8
Chapter Two: Primer? Primer? We Don’t Need a Stinking Primer! No access Pages 9 - 14
Chapter Three: Where in the World Is Traditional Public Education? No access Pages 15 - 40
Chapter Four: The Mechanisms Sold as Education in the Free Market No access Pages 41 - 44
Chapter Five: Let’s Meet Two Advocates for Free Market Schooling No access Pages 45 - 50
Chapter Six: The Sinkhole That Is Context of the Free Market No access Pages 51 - 66
Chapter Seven: Free Market ATMs from Coast to Coast No access Pages 67 - 78
Chapter Eight: The Public Good and Traditional Public Education No access Pages 79 - 96
Chapter Nine: What Educators Don’t Know about the Free Market Hurts No access Pages 97 - 104
Chapter Ten: Students Sold Short in the Free Market No access Pages 105 - 114
Chapter Eleven: Subtlety in the Free Market: “Yeah, but . . .” No access Pages 115 - 124
Chapter Twelve: The Free Market Is a Desperate Place—Traditional Public Education to the Rescue! No access Pages 125 - 126
Chapter Thirteen: What It Takes to Climb Off the Limb No access Pages 127 - 132
References No access Pages 133 - 140
Index No access Pages 141 - 142
About the Authors No access Pages 143 - 143