Gates Foundation and the Future of Us Public Schools

Informationen zum Autor Philip E. Kovacs is assistant professor of education at UAHuntsville. Klappentext What are the implications when the educational policy and priority of public schools are concentrated in ways that foster de-unionization and teacher de-skilling while homogenizing school models and curriculum? This volume addresses this crucial, unanswered question while investigating the impact of the Gates Foundation on education. Zusammenfassung What are the implications when the educational policy and priority of public schools are concentrated in ways that foster de-unionization and teacher de-skilling while homogenizing school models and curriculum? This volume addresses this crucial, unanswered question while investigating the impact of the Gates Foundation on education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Deron Boyles. Acknowledgments. 1. From Carnegie to Gates: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Venture Philanthropy Agenda for Public Education Kenneth J. Saltman 2. Power Philanthropy: Taking the Public Out of Public Education Michael Klonsky 3. The Gates Foundation's Interventions into Education, Health, and Food Policies: Technology, Power, and the Privatization of Political Problems David Hursh 4. Marketing New Schools for a New Century: An Examination of Neoliberal School Reform in New York City Jessica Shiller 5. Corporatism, KIPP, and Cultural Eugenics Jim Horn 6. Disabusing Small-Schools Reformism: An Alternative Outlook on Scaling Up and Down Aimee Howley and Craig B. Howley 7. Governing Identity Through Neoliberal Education Initiatives: "Get[ting] Schooled" in the Marketplace Leslee Grey 8. The Gates' Foundation and the Future of U.S. Public Education: A Call for Scholars to Counter Misinformation Campaigns Philip E. Kovacs and H.K. Christie 9. The Giving Business: Venture Philanthropy and the NewSchools Venture Fund Jim Horn and Ken Libby 10. Dear Bill: "Grokking' Education Patti Lather 11. An Open Letter to Bill Gates, Jr. (With a Message to My Colleagues) David Gabbard 12. Why Current Education Reform Efforts Will Fail Marion Brady ...

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• Autori: Philip E. Kovacs, Philip E. (EDT) Kovacs, Philip E. (University of Alabama in Huntsv Kovacs, KOVACS PHILIP E, Philip E. Kovacs
• Con la collaborazione di: Philip E Kovacs (Editore), Philip E. Kovacs (Editore), Philip E. (University of Alabama in Huntsville Kovacs (Editore), Kovacs Philip E. (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.02.2012
• EAN: 9780415536639
• ISBN: 978-0-415-53663-9
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism; Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism; Routledge Research in Educatio
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, EDUCATION / Essays, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy