Ignoring poverty in the U.S. : the corporate takeover of public education / by P. L. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, P. L. (Paul Lee), 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business and education--United States.

Business and education.

Education--Economic aspects--United States.

Education.

Poor children--Education--United States.

Poor children.

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Public schools--United States.

Public schools.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

ignoring poverty in the United States

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education examines the divide between a commitment to public education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in the context of the following: the historical and conflicting purposes in public education--how schools became positivistic/behavioral in our quest to produce workers for industry; the accountability era--how A Nation at Risk through NCLB have served corporate interest in dismantling public education and dissolving teachers unions; the media and misinformation about education; charter schools as political/corporate compromise masking poverty; demonizing schools and scapegoating teachers--from misusing the SAT to VAM evaluations of teachers; rethinking the purpose of schools--shifting from schools as social saviors to addressing poverty so that public education can fulfill its purpose of empowering everyone in a democracy; and reframing how we view people living in poverty--rejecting deficit views of people living in poverty and students struggling in school under the weight of lives in poverty.This work is intended to confront the growing misinformation about the interplay among poverty, public schools, and what schools can accomplish while political and corporate leadership push agendas aimed at replacing public education with alternatives such as charter schools. The audience for the publication includes educators, educational reformers, politicians, and any member of the wider public interested in public education.

Contents:

Acknowledgements. Introduction

Chapter 1. Universal public education: Two possible

and contradictory

missions

Chapter 2. Politicians who cry "crisis": Education accountability as masking

Chapter 3. Legend of the fall: Snapshots of what's wrong in the education debate

Chapter 4. The great charter compromise: Masking corporate commitments in educational reform

Chapter 5. The teaching profession as a service industry

Chapter 6. If education cannot do everything: Education as communal praxis

Chapter 7. Confronting poverty again for the first time: Rising above deficit perspectives. conclusion. Note

References

About the author.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-257).

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781617357855

1617357855

OCLC:

923177224