Assault on kids : how hyper-accountability, corporatization, deficit ideologies, and Ruby Payne are destroying our schools / edited by Roberta Ahlquist, Paul Gorski, Theresa Montaño.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahlquist, Roberta, 1943-

Gorski, Paul

Montaño, Theresa, 1952-

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.)

Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Education.

Education--Social aspects.

United States.

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Payne, Ruby K.

Physical Description:

ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2011]

Summary:

This collection of mostly academic pieces explores subjects often overlooked when attempting school reform. The underlying theme is that education in the United States is moving toward measurable efficiency, encompassed within a neoliberal philosophy. This has resulted in a growth in standardized testing, technological surveillance of students, hyper-accountability and a militaristic style in some private schools. Student differences from white middle class standards are often seen as deficits. All together, these pieces cover the social aspects of education, occasionally slipping into critical pedagogy. The editors, Ahlquist (secondary teacher education, San Jose State U.), Gorski (integrative studies, George Mason U.) and Montana (Chicana and Chicano studies, California State U., Northridge) are also the authors of three of the included papers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The "empire" strikes back via a neoliberal agenda: confronting the legacies of colonialism / by Roberta Ahlquist

What we don't talk about when we talk about "the achievement gap" / by Sue Books

Can standardized teacher performance assessment identify highly qualified teachers? / by Ann Berlak

Anti-democratic militaristic education: an overview and critical analysis of KIPP schools / by Brian Lack

Exposing the myths of the corporate city: popular education and political activism in Atlanta / by Richard Lakes ... [et al.]

Ground zero in a corporate classroom / by Lisa Martin

Why aren't we more enraged?: it will take more than a civil rights movement to interrupt the historical normalizing of deficit discourses about poor students and students of color / by Virginia Lea

Unlearning deficit ideology and the scornful gaze: thoughts on authenticating the class discourse in education / by Paul C. Gorski

A framework for maintaining white privilege: a critique of Ruby Payne / by Monique Redeaux

Undoing Ruby Payne and other deficit views of English language learners / by Theresa Montaño & Rosalinda Quintanar-Sarellana

What's class got to do with it?: a pedagogical response to a deficit perspective / by Julie Keown-Bomar & Deborah Pattee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1433112280

9781433112287

9781433112294

1433112299

OCLC:

741763672

Publisher Number:

99944378950