Public Education Under Siege / / ed. by Michael B. Katz, Mike Rose.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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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