High stakes education : inequality, globalization, and urban school reform / Pauline Lipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipman, Pauline, 1944-

Series:

Critical social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.

Education, Urban.

Discrimination in education--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.

Discrimination in education.

School improvement programs--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.

School improvement programs.

Educational accountability--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.

Educational accountability.

Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education.

Chicago (Ill.).

Social aspects.

Education, Urban--Social aspects.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 227 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

Summary:

What are the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in a political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class? "High Stakes" "Education" provides a cogent and critical examination of such questions, investigating concretely the political economy of neoliberal education reforms and the cultural politics of race. Using Chicago--a standard bearer for high stakes testing and centralized regulation of schools--as a case study, noted scholar Pauline Lipman argues there is a strategic relationship between these policies and processes of economic restructuring, racialized social control, and globalization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415935075

0415935083

OCLC:

54374571