The School Reform Landscape
eBook - ePub

The School Reform Landscape

Fraud, Myth, and Lies

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eBook - ePub

The School Reform Landscape

Fraud, Myth, and Lies

About this book

In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. They scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the ongoing tensions between the need to keep a vibrant unitary system of public education and the ongoing assault by corporate and elite interests in creating a dual system. Some of events, proposals, and policies critiqued include the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, No Child Left Behind, the lies of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and other common reform schemes. The authors provide an evidence-based contrarian view of the free-market reform ideas and pierce the veil of the new reform policies to find that they are built not upon empirical evidence, but instead rest solidly on foundations of myth, fear, and lies. Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, democratic system of education are presented.

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Yes, you can access The School Reform Landscape by Christopher H. Tienken,Donald C. Orlich in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Educational Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
R&L Education
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781475802597
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Liberty and Justice for All
  7. The Education Reform King with a Styrofoam Crown
  8. A Catalogue of Reform Fallacies
  9. The No Child Left Behind Act
  10. The Path of High-Risk Implications for Public Education
  11. High Stakes, Low Quality
  12. World-Class Standards That Are Too Big to Fail
  13. Charter Schools: Separate but Legal
  14. What Now? A Way Forward
  15. Index