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What you should know about the war against America's public schools / Gerald W. Bracey.
Van Pelt Library LB2806.36 .B72 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bracey, Gerald W. (Gerald Watkins)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privatization in education--United States.
- Privatization in education.
- United States.
- Public schools--United States.
- Public schools.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- War against America's public schools
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [2003]
- Contents:
- Part I The War on America's Public Schools 1
- Higher Education: Biting the Hand That Feeds 5
- Business and Industry: A Workforce at Risk? 6
- Christian Conservatives 11
- 2 Dueling Visions 15
- 3 The Master Myth: Money Doesn't Matter 21
- The Correlations between Spending and Outcomes in Schools 21
- The SATs and State Participation Rates 23
- Studying the Studies: A Closer Look at Methodology 24
- Does Spending Equal Achievement? 26
- Education Spending in the United States 28
- Other Justifications for the "Master Myth" 29
- What Spending Can Achieve 30
- Project STAR 31
- Project SAGE 32
- Mandating Small Classes 32
- 4 The Historical Context 35
- The Factory Model of Schooling 35
- The Cold War Era in Public School Reform 38
- The "Paper Sputnik" 40
- Schooling in the New Millennium 42
- 5 The Condition of American Public Education 45
- High-Stakes Testing in the United States and Abroad 48
- Our Leaders
- Accentuating the Negative 58
- Domestic Data on the Condition of Education 63
- The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 67
- Part II Invasion of the Privatizers 73
- 6 Charter Schools 75
- The Genesis of Charter Schools 77
- Opposition to the Charter Movement 79
- The Popularity of Charter Schools 79
- Three Case Studies: Arizona, Michigan, and California 81
- Ohio and Elsewhere 95
- Charter Schools and Public School Funding 98
- 7 Private Schools and the Private Management of Public School Programs 100
- The TesseracT Group (Formerly Education Alternatives, Inc.) 101
- Edison Schools, Inc.: The Market in Theory versus the Market in Practice 104
- Beacon Education Management (Formerly Alternative Public Schools) 117
- Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. 118
- Advantage Schools, Inc. 121
- The "Education Industry": Wall Street Takes Notice 123
- EduVentures, Inc. 127
- Two Comprehensive Systems: Knowledge Universe and Sylvan Learning Systems 128
- 8 Vouchers, Public and Private 137
- John Stuart Mill and the Concept of Vouchers 137
- Comparing Vouchers and Charters 138
- A Sample Voucher Program
- Miwaukee, Wisconsin 139
- Voucher Programs in Florida and Elsewhere 142
- Making Vouchers Accountable 146
- A Nation of Vouchers: Chile 148
- Vouchers in U.S. Cities 151
- The Condition of Vouchers and Charters According to RAND 161
- The Children's Education Opportunity Foundation (CEO America) 162
- 9 Homeschooling 166
- 10 Commercialism in the Schools 170
- Mike Cameron Loses His Shirt: A Tale of Our Times 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0205351883
- OCLC:
- 49681202
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