This book describes the current state of the education system in the United States, where schools allocate funding to test preparation and transfer students with poor grades to win the Race to the Top. By the end of the book, readers will ask who is really winning the race.
This book describes the current state of the education system in the United States, where schools allocate funding to test preparation and transfer students with poor grades to win the Race to the Top. By the end of the book, readers will ask who is really winning the race.
Todd Alan Price, Ph.D., is director of leadership and specialized roles at National Louis University. An associate professor of education, his interests include educational policy, service learning, co-teaching, and the history and philosophy of education in the United States of America, Cuba, and the People's Republic of China, where he has lived, studied, and taught. John Duffy, Ed.D., is a retired high school social studies and English teacher. He has been instructing school leaders and teachers in Chicago Public Schools for the last six years. His research, writing, and advocacy throughout his career have been on behalf of progressive teacher unionism, critical multicultural education, and diversity equity in school programs and curriculum. Tania Giordani, Ed.D., is a professor of adult education at the College of Lake County, where she currently serves as a department chair for adult basic education and general education development. She is an advocate for equal access to quality education for all children and uses Theater of the Oppressed to engage parents, students, and community members in conversations about the current state of public education.
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Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Racing to the Top, Running for the Money, and Running Away from School Funding Equity Todd Alan Price, John Duffy and Tania Giordani Part I Chicago Public Schools: A Business Control Laboratory 1: Commercial Club Curriculum: Big Business Against the Common School Todd Alan Price and John Duffy 2: A Dream Deferred: The Commodification of Chicago Public Schools Under Renaissance 2010 Tania Giordani and Andrea Lee 3: Citizen Teachers and Curricular Activism John Duffy 4: Standard Scores and Non-Standard Lives: A Recipe for Systemic Violence Terry Jo Smith 5: Science Left Behind: Reflections from a Chicago Public School Student of Science Theresa Robinson Part II Vouchers, Charters, and Mayoral Takeovers: Tools of the Great School Selloff 6: Voucher Vultures: Blueprint for Restructuring Milwaukee Public Schools Robert Miranda 7: Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools Todd Alan Price 8: The Privatization Pandemic: Barbarians at the Schoolhouse Door Geoff Berne 9: Clash Over Charter Schools in Ohio: Ted Strickland's Challenge to the Obama-Duncan Wrecking Ball Geoff Berne Part III Neoliberalism: The Ideology of For-profit Public Education 10: The New Corporate Agenda: Austerity, "Shared Sacrifice" and Union Busting Jack Gerson 11: Recovering Schools and Classrooms in the Recovery School District Karen Roth 12: Four Hundred Years of Chartering John Duffy 13: Rationalizing Standards, Rationing Opportunity: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Success in Haitian and U.S. Education Baudelaire K. Ulysse Part IV Reclaiming Education for the Public 14: Corporate Siege and the Growing Resistance Todd Alan Price 15: This is What Democracy Looks Like! T.J. Mertz Conclusion: Turning the Tide on Commercial Club "School Reform" John Duffy and Todd Alan Price About the Authors
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Racing to the Top, Running for the Money, and Running Away from School Funding Equity Todd Alan Price, John Duffy and Tania Giordani Part I Chicago Public Schools: A Business Control Laboratory 1: Commercial Club Curriculum: Big Business Against the Common School Todd Alan Price and John Duffy 2: A Dream Deferred: The Commodification of Chicago Public Schools Under Renaissance 2010 Tania Giordani and Andrea Lee 3: Citizen Teachers and Curricular Activism John Duffy 4: Standard Scores and Non-Standard Lives: A Recipe for Systemic Violence Terry Jo Smith 5: Science Left Behind: Reflections from a Chicago Public School Student of Science Theresa Robinson Part II Vouchers, Charters, and Mayoral Takeovers: Tools of the Great School Selloff 6: Voucher Vultures: Blueprint for Restructuring Milwaukee Public Schools Robert Miranda 7: Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools Todd Alan Price 8: The Privatization Pandemic: Barbarians at the Schoolhouse Door Geoff Berne 9: Clash Over Charter Schools in Ohio: Ted Strickland's Challenge to the Obama-Duncan Wrecking Ball Geoff Berne Part III Neoliberalism: The Ideology of For-profit Public Education 10: The New Corporate Agenda: Austerity, "Shared Sacrifice" and Union Busting Jack Gerson 11: Recovering Schools and Classrooms in the Recovery School District Karen Roth 12: Four Hundred Years of Chartering John Duffy 13: Rationalizing Standards, Rationing Opportunity: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Success in Haitian and U.S. Education Baudelaire K. Ulysse Part IV Reclaiming Education for the Public 14: Corporate Siege and the Growing Resistance Todd Alan Price 15: This is What Democracy Looks Like! T.J. Mertz Conclusion: Turning the Tide on Commercial Club "School Reform" John Duffy and Todd Alan Price About the Authors
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