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Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business education
ISBN : 0415950465
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135930042
The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. history lose respect, money, and credibility in such a short time? Revealing how American McEducation went from glory to crisis, The Edison Schools tracks entrepreneur Christopher Whittle's plan to introduce a standardized nationwide curriculum and cut administrative waste. Education specialist Kenneth J. Saltman finds that the critics' predictions came true in Edison schools across the country: Experienced teachers left in droves, students were virtually given answers to standardized tests to drive up scores, and difficult students were "counselored" out.
Author : Brian Gill,Laura S. Hamilton,J. R. Lockwood,Julie A. Marsh,Ron Zimmer
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780833040848
In 2000, Edison Schools, the nation's largest education management organization, asked RAND to analyze its achievement outcomes and design implementation. RAND evaluated Edison's strategies for promoting student achievement in its schools, how it implemented those strategies, how its management affected student achievement, and what factors explained differences in achievement trends among its schools.
Author : Felicity Fletcher-Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Privatization in education
ISBN : 1903880289
Author : Samuel E. Abrams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674545809
America’s commitment to public schooling once seemed unshakable. But today the movement to privatize K–12 education is stronger than ever. A veteran teacher and administrator, Samuel E. Abrams examines the rise of market forces in public education and reveals how a commercial mindset has taken over. For decades, Milton Friedman and his disciples contended that private markets could deliver better schooling than governments. In the 1990s, this belief was put to the test by Edison Schools and other for-profit educational management organizations (EMOs). Edison grew rapidly, running schools in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and many other cities across the country. Yet disappointing academic and financial outcomes soon pushed the company and its competitors to the margins. The focus of EMOs on efficiency and results nevertheless found expression in federal policy with No Child Left Behind in 2002 and Race to the Top in 2009. The new ethos also defined nonprofit charter management organizations (CMOs) like KIPP that surfaced in the wake of EMOs and flourished. But the dependence of CMOs on philanthropists, tireless teachers, and students capable of abiding by rigid expectations limits their reach. Abrams argues that while the commercial mindset sidesteps fundamental challenges, public schools should adopt lessons from the business world. Citing foreign practices, he recommends raising teacher salaries to attract and retain talent, conferring more autonomy on educators to build ownership, and employing sampling techniques rather than universal assessments to gauge student progress.
Author : Todd Oppenheimer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780307432216
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works. American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever—the miracle of computers and the Internet—at a cost of approximately $70 billion just during the decade of the 1990s. Computer technology has become so prevalent that it is transforming nearly every corner of the academic world, from our efforts to close the gap between rich and poor, to our hopes for school reform, to our basic methods of developing the human imagination. Technology is also recasting the relationships that schools strike with the business community, changing public beliefs about the demands of tomorrow’s working world, and reframing the nation’s systems for researching, testing, and evaluating achievement. All this change has led to a culture of the flickering mind, and a generation teetering between two possible futures. In one, youngsters have a chance to become confident masters of the tools of their day, to better address the problems of tomorrow. Alternatively, they can become victims of commercial novelties and narrow measures of ability, underscored by misplaced faith in standardized testing. At this point, America’s students can’t even make a fair choice. They are an increasingly distracted lot. Their ability to reason, to listen, to feel empathy, is quite literally flickering. Computers and their attendant technologies did not cause all these problems, but they are quietly accelerating them. In this authoritative and impassioned account of the state of education in America, Todd Oppenheimer shows why it does not have to be this way. Oppenheimer visited dozens of schools nationwide—public and private, urban and rural—to present the compelling tales that frame this book. He consulted with experts, read volumes of studies, and came to strong and persuasive conclusions: that the essentials of learning have been gradually forgotten and that they matter much more than the novelties of technology. He argues that every time we computerize a science class or shut down a music program to pay for new hardware, we lose sight of what our priority should be: “enlightened basics.” Broad in scope and investigative in treatment, The Flickering Mind will not only contribute to a vital public conversation about what our schools can and should be—it will define the debate.
Author : Shana Pribesh,Brian P Gill,Ron Zimmer,Deanna Hill,Laura Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1376445279
With the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 andwidespread charter school legislation, there is increasing interest ineducational management organizations (EMOs) to provide innovative, alternativeforms of governance and management of public schools, both contract andcharter. The largest EMO is Edison Schools, Inc., which operates 103 schools in18 states and the District of Columbia. This report was commissioned by Edison Schools to evaluate the schools itmanages. The analysisexamines Edison's strategies for improving schools,implementation in a sample of its schools, and achievement trends attained byits students. Edison has a two-part strategy: (1) provide resources to supporta coherent and comprehensive school design, and (2) implement accountabilitysystems to ensure resources for the design are in place and used asintended. Evaluation was based on interviews, Edison-provided documents, visits to 23Edison schools, and school-level test scores in reading and mathematics. Thefirst set of achievement analyses sought to estimate the effect of Edisonmanagement on reading and mathematics by examining longitudinal trends inaverage student proficiency. The second set used achievement data and casestudy data to identify factors that could explain differences in achievementamong Edison schools. Found that in case study schools the best-functioning Edison schools (thosewith strong instructional leadership, motivated teachers, effective use ofdata, implementation of Edison curricula, and high levels of professionalcollaboration) demonstrate the promise of the Edison ideal. However, it wasalso found that there was considerable variation in the extent to which theideal was realized. This is likely due to length of operation, instructionalleadership, and local constraints. When considering whether schools were conversion or charter schools, andlength of operation, and considering the incompleteness of information, theevaluation found that, despite first-year achievement decline in conversionschools, on average Edison schools do not exceed the gains of matchedcomparison schools, but Edison results do improve in years four and five. It isuncertain, then, whether achievement over four to five years is comparable orsuperior to matched schools. The variation in individual Edison schools'achievement is extensive: some having strong performance, and others fallingbehind comparison schools.Some evidence suggests Edison schools operatingwith fewer local constraints may have better achievement trends. Severalexplanations are offered for the variations. In summary, the net long-termeffects of Edison schools is uncertain, and predictions cannot be made aboutthe long-term effects of Edison's program. In conclusion, the study offers sets of recommendations for Edison schooladministrators and for district staff and policymakers considering hiring theEdison educational management organization. (TNM).
Author : Noliwe Rooks
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781620972496
2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization—and profitability—of separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America "An astounding look at America’s segregated school system, weaving together historical dynamics of race, class, and growing inequality into one concise and commanding story. Cutting School puts our schools at the center of the fight for a new commons." —Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything Public schools are among America’s greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education—today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars—there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides a trenchant analysis of our separate and unequal schools and argues that profiting from our nation’s failure to provide a high-quality education to all children has become a very big business. Cutting School deftly traces the financing of segregated education in America, from reconstruction through Brown v. Board of Education up to the current controversies around school choice, teacher quality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more, to elucidate the course we are on today: the wholesale privatization of our schools. Rooks’s incisive critique breaks down the fraught landscape of “segrenomics,” showing how experimental solutions to the so-called achievement gaps—including charters, vouchers, and cyber schools—rely on, profit from, and ultimately exacerbate disturbingly high levels of racial and economic segregation under the guise of providing equal opportunity. Rooks chronicles the making and unmaking of public education and the disastrous impact of funneling public dollars to private for-profit and nonprofit operations. As the infrastructure crumbles, a number of major U.S. cities are poised to permanently dismantle their public school systems—the very foundation of our multicultural democracy. Yet Rooks finds hope and promise in the inspired individuals and powerful movements fighting to save urban schools. A comprehensive, compelling account of what’s truly at stake in the relentless push to deregulate and privatize, Cutting School is a cri de coeur for all of us to resist educational apartheid in America.
Author : Thomas L. Williams
Publisher : Eye On Education
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 1883001749
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Barry Leonard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Discrimination in housing
ISBN : 9780788141065
Author : Bruce A. Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313096020
The contributors provided in this book shed light on and initiate debates about important policy issues associated with education reform and improvement. The authors do this by linking conceptual frameworks to past research, analyzing these challenges, and speculating about the contours of future research and school practice. Centering on policy research-based examinations of the future in public education in the United States, this book examines policy issues as they relate to public education governance, finance, curriculum development and community relations. At a conceptual level, the volume explores along several dimensions whether or not public education should exist in its current form, and what is the connection between future configurations of public education, policy development and the global economy,
Author : JOURNAL OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781475817294
The Journal of School Leadership is broadening the conversation about schools and leadership and is currently accepting manuscripts. We welcome manuscripts based on cutting-edge research from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations. The editorial team is particularly interested in working with international authors, authors from traditionally marginalized populations, and in work that is relevant to practitioners around the world. Growing numbers of educators and professors look to the six bimonthly issues to: deal with problems directly related to contemporary school leadership practice teach courses on school leadership and policy use as a quality reference in writing articles about school leadership and improvement.
Author : Geoffrey Walford
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927236
Throughout much of the industrialised world in the 1980s and 1990s governments divested themselves of responsibility for providing services for their citizens and espoused the ideology of the market. In education the term ‘quasi-market’ has been used to describe the situation where the market forces introduced into schooling differ in some fundamental respects from classical free markets. This book brings together specially written accounts of developments in the quasi-market in nine countries. The authors were asked to focus on their own particular country and to review policy developments in school choice over the previous five to ten years. In addition they were asked to assess the research evidence on the workings of the quasi-market of schools and, in particular, the effects of such changes on children of different genders and from differing social class and ethnic backgrounds. The result is a series of thought-provoking articles that add greatly to our understanding of the pressures that led to quasi-markets in education, and of how particular countries have responded to such changes and to the potentially inequitable effects of such moves.
Author : Shawgi Tell
Publisher : IAP
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681232973
What is a charter school? Where do they come from? Who promotes them, and why? What are they supposed to do? Are they the silver bullet to the ills plaguing the American public education system? This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of charter schools and their many dimensions. It shows that charter schools as a whole lower the quality of education through the privatization and marketization of education. The final chapter provides readers with a way toward rethinking and remaking education in a way that is consistent with modern requirements. Society and its members need a fully funded high quality public education system open to all and controlled by a public authority.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000043069828
