The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fraud, Myths, and Lies
The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies peels back the curtain of school reform to examine the tensions that exist between the democratic and equitable system of public education and the emerging dual system based on elite interests aimed at profit-making and decreasing education equity. The author takes in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik I. Education reform events, proposals, and policies are examined through the lens of progressivist philosophy and critical social theory. Some of the issues and policies critiqued include the neoliberal corporate influence on education, the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, standardization, charter schools, and other relevant topics. The author provides an evidence-based view of the free-market reform ideas and he pierces the veil of the new reform policies to find that they are not built upon empirical evidence, but instead rest solidly on foundations of myth, fear, and lies. Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, equitable, and democratic system of education are presented.
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The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fraud, Myths, and Lies
The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies peels back the curtain of school reform to examine the tensions that exist between the democratic and equitable system of public education and the emerging dual system based on elite interests aimed at profit-making and decreasing education equity. The author takes in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik I. Education reform events, proposals, and policies are examined through the lens of progressivist philosophy and critical social theory. Some of the issues and policies critiqued include the neoliberal corporate influence on education, the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, standardization, charter schools, and other relevant topics. The author provides an evidence-based view of the free-market reform ideas and he pierces the veil of the new reform policies to find that they are not built upon empirical evidence, but instead rest solidly on foundations of myth, fear, and lies. Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, equitable, and democratic system of education are presented.
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The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fraud, Myths, and Lies

The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fraud, Myths, and Lies

by Christopher H. Tienken
The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fraud, Myths, and Lies

The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fraud, Myths, and Lies

by Christopher H. Tienken

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The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies peels back the curtain of school reform to examine the tensions that exist between the democratic and equitable system of public education and the emerging dual system based on elite interests aimed at profit-making and decreasing education equity. The author takes in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik I. Education reform events, proposals, and policies are examined through the lens of progressivist philosophy and critical social theory. Some of the issues and policies critiqued include the neoliberal corporate influence on education, the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, standardization, charter schools, and other relevant topics. The author provides an evidence-based view of the free-market reform ideas and he pierces the veil of the new reform policies to find that they are not built upon empirical evidence, but instead rest solidly on foundations of myth, fear, and lies. Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, equitable, and democratic system of education are presented.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781475850284
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/22/2020
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Christopher H. Tienken is an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ in the College of Education and Human Services, Department of Education Leadership, Management, and Policy.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Education Equity and Democracy

Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, Social Darwinism, and Consumerism Masquerading as School Reform

Chapter 3: The Education Reform King With a Styrofoam Crown

Chapter 4: A Catalogue of Reform Myths

Chapter 5: The Path of High-Risk Implications in the Dual System

Chapter 6: High Stakes, Low Quality

Chapter 7: World-Class Standards That Are Too Big to Fail

Chapter 8: Charter Schools: Separate But Legal

Chapter 9: What Now? A Way Forward

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