Public Education Under Siege / / ed. by Michael B. Katz, Mike Rose.

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• MitwirkendeR: Barkan, Joanne,; Barnhouse Walters, Pamela,; Cucchiara, Maia,; Erickson, Ansley T.,; Garcia, Eugene E.,; Gold, Eva,; Henig, Jeffrey R.,; Howard, Tyrone C.,; Kahlenberg, Richard D.,; Kantor, Harvey,; Katz, Michael B.,; Labaree, David F.,; Lamber, Julia C.,; Lowe, Robert,; Meier, Deborah,; Noguera, Pedro,; Reynolds, Rema,; Robertson-Kraft, Claire,; Robinson, Jean C.,; Rose, Mike,; Scott, Janelle,; Simon, Elaine,; Skilton-Sylvester, Paul,; Spencer, Joi A.,; Thompson, Heather Ann,; Trujillo, Tina,; Welner, Kevin G.,; Woulfin, Sarah,
• HerausgeberIn: Katz, Michael B.,; Rose, Mike,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources availabl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. The Perils of Technocratic Educational Reform
• Chapter 1. The Mismeasure of Teaching and Learning: How Contemporary School Reform Fails the Test
• Chapter 2. Views from the Black of the Math Classroom
• Chapter 3. Targeting Teachers
• Chapter 4. Firing Line: The Grand Coalition Against Teachers
• Chapter 5. The Bipartisan, and Unfounded, Assault on Teachers' Unions
• Chapter 6. Free-Market Think Tanks and the Marketing of Education Policy
• Chapter 7. The Price of Human Capital: The Illusion of Equal Educational Opportunity
• Chapter 8. Educational Movements, Not Market Moments
• Part II. Education, Race, and Poverty
• Chapter 9. Public Education as Welfare
• Chapter 10. In Search of Equality in School Finance Reform
• Chapter 11. "I Want the White People Here!": The Dark Side of an Urban School Renaissance
• Chapter 12. The Rhetoric of Choice: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools
• Chapter 13. Criminalizing Kids: The Overlooked Reason for Failing Schools
• Part III. Alternatives to Technocratic Reform
• Chapter 14. Abandoning the Higher Purposes of Public Schools
• Chapter 15. Equity-Minded Instructional Leadership: Turning Up the Volume for English Learners
• Chapter 16. Professional Unionism: Redefining the Role of Teachers and Their Unions in Reform Efforts
• Chapter 17. Pushing Back: How an Environmental Charter School Resisted Test-Driven Pressures
• Chapter 18. The Achievement Gap and the Schools We Need: Creating the Conditions Where Race and Class No Longer Predict Student Achievement
• Chapter 19. ¡Ya Basta! Challenging Restrictions on English-Language Learners
• Chapter 20. Sharing Responsibility: A Case for Real Parent- School Partnerships
• Chapter 21. Calling the Shots in Public Education: Parents, Politicians, and Educators Clash
• Part IV. Conclusions
• Chapter 22. What Is Education Reform?
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments