The Retreat From Public Education

Author : Orit Ichilov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402095708
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Retreat from Public Education written by Orit Ichilov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over the shrinking public space of education. In the 1980s markets were elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular faith. Privatizing public education became a credible policy in many countries and there have been an increasing number of attempts to restructure and deregulate state schooling. Global trade agreements foster domestic and international trade in education services treating education as a commodity to be sold and purchased, and many countries adopt various forms of market-related practices in education. These are not neutral, technical, managerial changes in the production and delivery of public education. They transform education in ways that have profound social and edu- tional consequences. To justify the introduction of market reforms in education public schools and educators are being defamed and accused of a series of vices, such as inef?ciency and laziness. We must be reminded that public education, i. e. , mandatory publicly ?nanced schooling, that was introduced in Austria as early as in 1874 and spread to other countries, was considered the most progressive movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Public schools were established to make education univ- sally available to all children, free of charge, and have been recognized as gateways to opportunity (Kober, 2006).

Author : Arthur Eugene Bestor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educational Wastelands written by Arthur Eugene Bestor and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Eugen Bestor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Educational Wastelands written by Arthur Eugen Bestor and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Eugene Bestor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252012440
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Educational Wastelands written by Arthur Eugene Bestor and published by . This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Charles Boger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876771
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Resegregation written by John Charles Boger and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other since 1970, resegregation, combined with resource inequities and the current "accountability movement," is now bringing public education in the South to a critical crossroads. In thirteen essays, leading thinkers in the field of race and public education present not only the latest data and statistics on the trend toward resegregation but also legal and policy analysis of why these trends are accelerating, how they are harmful, and what can be done to counter them. What's at stake is the quality of education available to both white and nonwhite students, they argue. This volume will help educators, policy makers, and concerned citizens begin a much-needed dialogue about how America can best educate its increasingly multiethnic student population in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Karen E. Banks, Wake County Public School System, Raleigh, N.C. John Charles Boger, University of North Carolina School of Law Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke Law School Charles T. Clotfelter, Duke University Susan Leigh Flinspach, University of California, Santa Cruz Erica Frankenberg, Harvard Graduate School of Education Catherine E. Freeman, U.S. Department of Education Jay P. Heubert, Teachers College, Columbia University Jennifer Jellison Holme, University of California, Los Angeles Michal Kurlaender, Harvard Graduate School of Education Helen F. Ladd, Duke University Luis M. Laosa, Kingston, N.J. Jacinta S. Ma, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Gary Orfield, Harvard Graduate School of Education Gregory J. Palardy, University of Georgia john a. powell, Ohio State University Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University Russell W. Rumberger, University of California, Santa Barbara Benjamin Scafidi, Georgia State University David L. Sjoquist, Georgia State University Jacob L. Vigdor, Duke University Amy Stuart Wells, Teachers College, Columbia University John T. Yun, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author : Charles T. Clotfelter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084133X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Brown written by Charles T. Clotfelter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect--contact between students of different racial groups--has changed over the fifty years since the decision. Using both published and unpublished data on school enrollments from across the country, Charles Clotfelter uses measures of interracial contact, racial isolation, and segregation to chronicle the changes. He goes beyond previous studies by drawing on heretofore unanalyzed enrollment data covering the first decade after Brown, calculating segregation for metropolitan areas rather than just school districts, accounting for private schools, presenting recent information on segregation within schools, and measuring segregation in college enrollment. Two main conclusions emerge. First, interracial contact in American schools and colleges increased markedly over the period, with the most dramatic changes occurring in the previously segregated South. Second, despite this change, four main factors prevented even larger increases: white reluctance to accept racially mixed schools, the multiplicity of options for avoiding such schools, the willingness of local officials to accommodate the wishes of reluctant whites, and the eventual loss of will on the part of those who had been the strongest protagonists in the push for desegregation. Thus decreases in segregation within districts were partially offset by growing disparities between districts and by selected increases in private school enrollment.

Author : Joan Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retreat from Learning written by Joan Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeff Swensson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475873832
Total Pages : 203 pages
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Download or read book Defending Public Education written by Jeff Swensson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional public education is at a pivotal juncture in history. A structural divide generated by partisanship creates two major perspectives about America’s schooling. This book takes the reader to the brink of the chasm that divides America’s schooling. One perspective equips students with the capabilities for navigating precarious-balance, the other adheres to static-balance. These dynamically opposed iterations of balance are the origin of a battle to determine which perspective will control education, and, as a result, control citizenship, government, and individual rights. Throughout this discussion, the tactics and intentions of the foes of public schools are called-out for their devastating impact on teaching, learning, and social reality. This book is a clarion call to defend traditional public schools and their role as the launching pad for the intellectual autonomy and open futures that all US students deserve.

Author : Peter Scott
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447363299
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retreat Or Resolution? written by Peter Scott and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Scott examines the development of mass higher education and calls for robust action to secure fair access at all levels and changes in the governance and management at both system and institutional levels to ensure more democratic accountability.

Author : David W. Hursh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317619676
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Public Schools written by David W. Hursh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of Public Schools analyzes the effect of foundations, corporations, and non-governmental organizations on the rise of neoliberal principles in public education. By first contextualizing the privatization of education within the context of a larger educational crisis, and with particular emphasis on the Gates Foundation and influential state and national politicians, it describes how specific policies that limit public control are advanced across all levels. Informed by a thorough understanding of issues such as standardized testing, teacher tenure, and charter schools, David Hursh provides a political and pedagogical critique of the current school reform movement, as well details about the increasing resistance efforts on the part of parents, teachers, and the general public.