Failure of Corporate School Reform

Failure of Corporate School Reform - Critical Interventions : Politics, Culture, and the Promise of Democracy

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Publisher's Synopsis

Corporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education. Yet, as Kenneth Saltman powerfully argues in this new book, corporate school reforms have decisively failed to deliver on what their proponents have promised for two decades: higher test scores and lower costs. As Saltman illustrates, the failures of corporate school reform are far greater and more destructive than they seem. Left unchecked, corporate school reform fails to challenge and in fact worsens the most pressing problems facing public schooling, including radical funding inequalities, racial segregation, and anti-intellectualism. But it is not too late for change. Against both corporate school reformers and its liberal critics, this book argues for the expansion of democratic pedagogies and a new common school movement that will lead to broader social renewal.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781612052090
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 371.010973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 153
Weight: 362g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 15mm