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Informationen zum Autor Beth Sondel is an assistant professor of Social Justice and Social Studies Education in the College of Education at North Carolina State University! USA. Zusammenfassung Since its inception! Teach For America has both received accolades and critiques its methods of preparing future teachers. In Teach For Whose America! Beth Sondel provides a textured description of how the market-based reforms with which Teach For America participates really translate into school culture and classroom practice. Drawing on five months of ethnographic data collected in two "No Excuse" charter schools! Sondel looks beyond the test scores and into schools and classrooms to critique the capacity for market-based reform to fulfill the multiple democratic purposes of public education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Teach For America and Market-Based ReformChapter 1: "This is our Egypt Moment": Teach For America and the Reappropriation of the Civil Rights MovementChapter 2: "Building a Movement": Teach For America and the Education Entrepreneurial NetworkPart II: The "No Excuses" Approach to SchoolingChapter Three: "Inspect What You Expect": The Role of Assessment in Teach For America Charter SchoolsChapter Four: "Learning at Level Zero": The "No Excuses" Approach to Curriculum and InstructionPart III: Culture! Consent! and Compliance Among TeachersChapter Five: "Expect More. Be More. Be KIPP.": Identity! Ideology! and Consent at KIPPSuccessChapter Six: "Be nice. Be neutral. Or nothing at all": Insecurity! Control! and Compliance at EMPOWERBenoitChapter Seven: "Cause knowledge is power! power is money! and I want it": Developing the Neoliberal CitizenPart IV : Shifting Commonsense and Investing in AlternativesChapter Eight: "Be the Change": Challenging Teach For America and Honoring Alternatives
