Unraveling Reform Rhetoric
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Unraveling Reform Rhetoric

What Educators Need to Know and Understand

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eBook - ePub

Unraveling Reform Rhetoric

What Educators Need to Know and Understand

About this book

Traditional public educators in the US have too little information about the free market of schooling, otherwise known as privatization/choice education. As a result, traditional public education colleagues have lost sight of where they are and how they got there. In this primer, educators, parents/caregivers, and policymakers are offered an examination of the forces and factors that undercut traditional public education and an inquiry into the primary purpose and quality instruction that distinguishes traditional public education from free market schooling.



Without knowing about the educational misdirection fostered by free market schooling, traditional public education in the US cannot invest in continuous improvement necessary to enrich the futures of all students and our nation's democracy. The time has come for traditional public educators to study how we got out on a limb. This book explores the nature of free market schooling and discusses the information that traditional public educators need to muster a defense of purpose, quality, social justice, and how to think. Practical and theoretical insights throughout this book focus on professional practice in traditional public education as the means by which colleagues can assert excellence on behalf of all students while thwarting the negative impacts of free market schooling.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. The Primary Purpose of Traditional Public Education versus Free Market Theory
  5. Primer? Primer? We Don’t Need a Stinking Primer!
  6. Where in the World Is Traditional Public Education?
  7. The Mechanisms Sold as Education in the Free Market
  8. Let’s Meet Two Advocates for Free Market Schooling
  9. The Sinkhole That Is Context of the Free Market
  10. Free Market ATMs from Coast to Coast
  11. The Public Good and Traditional Public Education
  12. What Educators Don’t Know about the Free Market Hurts
  13. Students Sold Short in the Free Market
  14. Subtlety in the Free Market: ā€œYeah, but . . .ā€
  15. The Free Market Is a Desperate Place—Traditional Public Education to the Rescue!
  16. What It Takes to Climb Off the Limb
  17. References
  18. Index
  19. About the Authors