The Takeover Of Public Education In America

Author : A. Patrick Huff, Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781496968593

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The Takeover of Public Education in America by A. Patrick Huff, Ph.D. Pdf

The Takeover of Public Education in America: The Agenda to Control Information and Knowledge Through the Accountability System is an informative and insightful look into the mechanism that controls school systems today. It provides a look back into the history of how the system developed into what we have today and peels the curtain back to reveal what is crippling the schools across the country. Testimony is given from education professionals and parents who have lost their community schools to the devastating impact of No Child Left Behind mandates and its accountability system. Find out why teachers and school administrators stay in a constant state of preparation for the next round of testing. Discover the effects of failing to meet standards, and see the heavy hand of national policy take away jobs and deprive students of attending their neighborhood school. Become aware of who is benefiting from the current state of public education. Billions of dollars are at stake as corporations position themselves to make huge profits as public schools struggle to gain acceptable ratings and companies are called upon to rescue the children from a failing school. Learn what must be done if the teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents are to have any chance of reclaiming sovereignty over their profession and the schools their children attend. Finally, learn how technology and testing have served to limit a child’s education through the agenda to control information and knowledge.

Author : Todd Alan Price,John Duffy,Tania Giordani
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Business and education
ISBN : 076186508X

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Defending Public Education from Corporate Takeover by Todd Alan Price,John Duffy,Tania Giordani Pdf

Describes the current state of the education system in the United States, focusing on issues such as charter schools, mandatory testing, selective admissions, curriculum changes, and closures. -- Back cover.

Author : P. L. Thomas
Publisher : IAP
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617357855

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Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. by P. L. Thomas Pdf

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education examines the divide between a commitment to public education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in the context of the following: the historical and conflicting purposes in public education—how schools became positivistic/behavioral in our quest to produce workers for industry; the accountability era—how A Nation at Risk through NCLB have served corporate interest in dismantling public education and dissolving teachers unions; the media and misinformation about education; charter schools as political/corporate compromise masking poverty; demonizing schools and scapegoating teachers—from misusing the SAT to VAM evaluations of teachers; rethinking the purpose of schools—shifting from schools as social saviors to addressing poverty so that public education can fulfill its purpose of empowering everyone in a democracy; and reframing how we view people living in poverty—rejecting deficit views of people living in poverty and students struggling in school under the weight of lives in poverty. This work is intended to confront the growing misinformation about the interplay among poverty, public schools, and what schools can accomplish while political and corporate leadership push agendas aimed at replacing public education with alternatives such as charter schools. The audience for the publication includes educators, educational reformers, politicians, and any member of the wider public interested in public education.

Author : Domingo Morel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190678975

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Takeover by Domingo Morel Pdf

Takeover' offers the first systematic study of state takeovers of school districts. Domingo Morel examines the factors that contribute to state takeovers as well as the effects and political implications of takeovers on racialized communities, the communities most often affected by them. Although states have generally justified state takeovers based on poor academic performance, questions of race and political power play a critical role in the emergence of0state takeovers of local school districts.

Author : David C. Berliner,Carl Hermanns
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807766095

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Public Education by David C. Berliner,Carl Hermanns Pdf

"Twenty-eight eminent essayists remind our nations parents, educators, school board members and politicians that our democracy is in jeopardy and that our nation's system of free universal public education is also under attack. If that attack succeeds, American democracy itself would be further imperiled. That is because American democracy rests on a belief that the power of our government comes from the people, and the diffusion of knowledge and the enlightenment of the people has been a cornerstone of our democracy since the founding of our republic. America's public schools, therefore, have a special mandate"--

Author : Johann N. Neem
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421423210

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Democracy's Schools by Johann N. Neem Pdf

The unknown history of American public education. At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It’s a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country worked together to form districts and build schoolhouses and reformers sought to expand tax support and give every child a liberal education. By the time of the Civil War, most northern states had made common schools free, and many southern states were heading in the same direction. Americans made schooling a public good. Yet back then, like today, Americans disagreed over the kind of education needed, who should pay for it, and how schools should be governed. Neem explores the history and meaning of these disagreements. As Americans debated, teachers and students went about the daily work of teaching and learning. Neem takes us into the classrooms of yore so that we may experience public schools from the perspective of the people whose daily lives were most affected by them. Ultimately, Neem concludes, public schools encouraged a diverse people to see themselves as one nation. By studying the origins of America’s public schools, Neem urges us to focus on the defining features of democratic education: promoting equality, nurturing human beings, preparing citizens, and fostering civic solidarity.

Author : Todd Alan Price,John Duffy,Tania Giordani
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761860501

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Defending Public Education from Corporate Takeover by Todd Alan Price,John Duffy,Tania Giordani Pdf

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?

Author : Raynard Sanders
Publisher : Education and Struggle
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business and education
ISBN : 1433137445

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The Coup D'état of the New Orleans Public Schools by Raynard Sanders Pdf

The coup d'état -- Privatize public education: New Orleans the perfect place -- Intended and unintended consequences; the assault on the children and the citizens in New Orleans -- School communities disenfranchised and destroyed -- The New Orleans public school gold rush -- New Orleans publicly funded private school system.

Author : William G. Howell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815797692

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Besieged by William G. Howell Pdf

School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. As recent mayoral and state takeovers in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York make abundantly clear, school boards that do not fulfill the expectations of other political players may be stripped of what few independent powers they still retain. Teachers unions exert growing influence over board decision-making processes. And with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has aggressively inserted itself into matters of local education governance. B esieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. A group of highly renowned scholars, relying on both careful case studies and quantitative analyses, examine how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public. For the most part, the picture that emerges is sobering: while school boards perform certain administrative functions quite well, the political pressures they face undermine their capacity to institute the wide-ranging school reforms that many voters and local leaders are currently demanding.

Author : Curtis J. Cardine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475840216

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Carpetbagging America’s Public Schools by Curtis J. Cardine Pdf

This book is a forensic accounting analysis of the financial effects of twenty years of charter schools and vouchers on the publics investment in public education.

Author : David Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781632869937

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Reinventing America's Schools by David Osborne Pdf

From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

Author : George Harrison Wood
Publisher : Penguin Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0525934219

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Schools that Work by George Harrison Wood Pdf

Discusses the characteristics and elements of successful educational models throughout the United States.

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019349110

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Progress of Public Education in the United States of America by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : G. Maeroff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230117495

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School Boards in America by G. Maeroff Pdf

School boards spend almost $500 billion in taxpayer-provided funds, they employ more than 6 million people, offering pensions and lifetime health benefits that have helped build the obligation that has put state governments in fiscal peril. This book lifts the veil of obscurity from school boards and makes readers think about the issues.

Author : Christopher H. Tienken,Carol A. Mullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317483694

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Education Policy Perils by Christopher H. Tienken,Carol A. Mullen Pdf

Education Policy Perils provides educators and those interested in the future of public education with research-based and practical analyses of some of the foremost issues facing public schools today. The collection, written by experienced scholar-practitioners, offers insights that include nuanced descriptions of various challenges facing educators and recommendations for overcoming them with an eye toward more successful policy and better implementation. The authors apply their expertise to a range of issues from international testing to policy challenges related to curriculum on the state and national levels. This volume positions ongoing debates within the wider context of an education landscape struggling to displace junk-science ideology with empirical research. The scope and sequence combined with the expertise of the contributors make this volume a vital resource for educators at all levels during a pivotal time of major changes in education policy.