Defending public education from corporate takeover / edited by Todd Alan Price, John Duffy, Tania Giordani.
| Other author | Price, Todd Alan. |
| Other author | Duffy, John, 1947- |
| Other author | Giordani, Tania. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham : University Press of America, [2013] |
| Description | xxiv, 225 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | I. Chicago Public Schools: A Business Control Laboratory -- Commercial Club Curriculum: Big Business Against the Common School / Todd Alan Price and John Duffy -- A Dream Deferred: The Commodification of Chicago Public Schools Under Renaissance 2010 / Tania Giordani and Andrea Lee -- Citizen Teachers and Curricular Activism / John Duffy -- Standard Scores and Non-Standard Lives: A Recipe for Systemic Violence / Terry Jo Smith -- Science Left Behind: Reflections from a Chicago Public School Student of Science / Theresa Robinson -- II. Vouchers, Charters, and Mayoral Takeovers: Tools of the Great School Selloff -- Voucher Vultures: Blueprint for Restructuring Milwaukee Public Schools / Robert Miranda -- Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools / Todd Alan Price -- The Privatization Pandemic: Barbarians at the Schoolhouse Door / Geoff Berne -- Clash Over Charter Schools in Ohio: Ted Strickland's Challenge to the Obama-Duncan Wrecking Ball / Geoff Berne -- III. Neoliberalism: The Ideology of For-profit Public Education -- The New Corporate Agenda: Austerity, "Shared Sacrifice" and Union Busting / Jack Gerson -- Recovering Schools and Classrooms in the Recovery School District / Karen Roth -- Four Hundred Years of Chartering / John Duffy -- Rationalizing Standards, Rationing Opportunity: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Success in Haitian and U.S.Education / Baudelaire K. Ulysse -- IV. Reclaiming Education for the Public -- Corporate Siege and the Growing Resistance / Todd Alan Price -- This is What Democracy Looks Like! / T.J. Mertz |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 0761860495 |
| ISBN | 9780761860495 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | LA217.2 .D445 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |