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Making failure pay : for-profit tutoring, high-stakes testing, and public schools / Jill P. Koyama.
LIBRA LB2822.82 .K69 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koyama, Jill Peterson.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
- United States.
- School improvement programs--Government policy--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- Educational accountability--United States.
- Educational accountability.
- School improvement programs--Government policy.
- Privatization in education--United States.
- Privatization in education.
- Education--Standards--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Standards.
- Education and state--United States.
- Education and state.
- Public schools--United States.
- Public schools.
- Physical Description:
- x, 179 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Engaging failure : probing the problematics and politics of policy
- Framing failure : interrogating policy studies, policy theory, and NCLB
- Supplementing failure : providing supplemental educational services
- Accentuating failure : emphasizing the need for "help"
- Neglecting failure : ignoring the need for "help"
- Fabricating failure : making up the need for "help"
- Abandoning failure : diffusing its impact.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226451732
- 9780226451749
- 0226451739
- 0226451747
- OCLC:
- 457149578
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