Defending Public Education from Corporate Takeover

Todd Alan Price; John Duffy; Tania Giordani

doi:10.5771/9780761860501

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 beg the question: who’s winning in the Race to the Top?

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Edition: 1/2012
Copyright Year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6049-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6050-1
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 225
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. Introduction: Racing to the Top, Running for the Money, and Running Away from School Funding Equity No access
1. 1 Commercial Club Curriculum: Big Business Against the Common School No access
2. 2 A Dream Deferred: The Commodification of Chicago Public Schools Under Renaissance 2010 No access
3. 3 Citizen Teachers and Curricular Activism No access
4. 4 Standard Scores and Non-Standard Lives: A Recipe for Systemic Violence No access
5. 5 Science Left Behind: Reflections from a Chicago Public School Student of Science No access
1. 6 Voucher Vultures: Blueprint for Restructuring Milwaukee Public Schools No access
2. 7 Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools No access
3. 8 The Privatization Pandemic: Barbarians at the Schoolhouse Door No access
4. 9 Clash Over Charter Schools in Ohio: Ted Strickland’s Challenge to the Obama-Duncan Wrecking Ball No access
1. 10 The New Corporate Agenda: Austerity, “Shared Sacrifice” and Union Busting No access
2. 11 Recovering Schools and Classrooms in the Recovery School District No access
3. 12 Four Hundred Years of Chartering No access
4. 13 Rationalizing Standards, Rationing Opportunity: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Success in Haitian and U.S. Education No access
1. 14 Corporate Siege and the Growing Resistance No access
2. 15 This is What Democracy Looks Like! No access
Conclusion: Turning the Tide on Commercial Club “School Reform” No access Pages 213 - 222
About the Authors No access Pages 223 - 225