Vicious circles in education reform : assimilation, Americanization, and fulfilling the middle-class ethic / Eric Shyman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shyman, Eric, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public schools--United States.

Public schools.

United States.

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Education.

Education--Social aspects.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

xiii, 143 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Summary:

Vicious Circles in Education Reform: Assimilation, Americanization, and Fulfilling the Middle Class Ethic traces the history of public education development and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light using a non-partisan analytical approach. Critically examining areas such as institutional racism, sexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia, as well as the corporatization and privatization of public schooling, Eric Shyman extracts the fundamental problems that have ever plagued, and continue to plague, successful education reform. Essentially Shyman demonstrates that little progress in the area of education reform has ever been made, Rather, the same misinformed repackage efforts by a disconnected and insularly private political elite have continued to be applied perpetuating a "Victous circle" of failed and misguided attempts at education reform. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Stories We Tell: Narratives of Public Schooling 5

2 Schooling as Sieve: Distinguishing between the Classes 15

3 Schooling and the Real America: Struggling toward Americanization 23

4 Schools of Thought: Systematizing the Study of Education 35

5 The Flat Free World: Global Competitiveness and Equal Educational Opportunity 47

6 Our Kids, Our Rules: Centralizing or Decentralizing America's Schools 59

7 A Study in Misrepresentation: Scholarly Interpretations of Policy Talk 67

8 Schooling and the "Culturally Deprived": Racism and American Schooling 73

9 White Flight and Black Plight: Situating the Segregated Neighborhood 81

10 Measuring Value: Intelligence Testing and the "Science" of Ability 89

11 Able Minds, Able Bodies: Ableism and the Public School 97

12 Segregation's New Stripes: Race, Language, and Special Education 107

13 You're an American Now: Assimilation or Elimination for the Non-American 115

14 It's a Man's World: Schooling and the Gender Gap 123

15 Vicious Circles in Education Reform: A Conclusion 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Shyman, Eric, 1979- author. Vicious circles in education reform

ISBN:

9781475827217

1475827210

9781475827224

1475827229

OCLC:

951506743