Schooling Alone : the Costs of Privatizing Public Education.

Author/creator Cardine, Curtis J., 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBlue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019.
Description1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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Contents Intro; Contents; Preface; Ch01. Chartering Schools; Ch02. An Entitlement Mentality; Ch03. Something Happened; Ch04. De-professionalizing American Public Education; Ch05. What about the Sermon on the Mount?; Ch06. The Good Old Days; Ch07. Public or Private?; Ch08. A Contracted Service; Ch09. "All Politics Is Local"; Ch10. Deregulating a Public Good; Ch11. The Myth of Self-Correcting Free Markets; Ch12. Financial "Tells"; Ch13. Espoused Theories versus Theories in Use; Ch14. Retirement Heist; Ch15. Investing in the General Welfare; Ch16. Market Meltdown
Contents Ch17. Controlling the Nation's Educational AgendaCh18. The Economics of School Choice; Ch19. False Analogies; Ch20. Capitalism and Democracy; Ch21. A Corporate Culture; Ch22. Is This Any Way to Run a Business?; Ch23. Lost Political Capital; Ch24. The Role of the Federal Government in Public Education; Ch25. The Goals of an American Public Education; Ch26. Cashing In-Greed Is "Good"; Ch27. An Educational Vision versus an Economic Theory of Action; Ch28. Philosophical Dissonance; Ch29. Enough Already; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Abstract Schooling Alone is a look at the history of public education and the current state of the efforts to privatize our public schools.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Cardine, Curtis J. Schooling Alone : The Costs of Privatizing Public Education. Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2019 9781475850017
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN1475850034
ISBN9781475850031 (electronic bk.)

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