Public Education Under Siege

✍ Scribed by Michael B. Katz (editor); Mike Rose (editor)

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Public Education Under Siege argues for a democratic and egalitarian alternative to the test-driven, market-oriented core of current education reform. These short, jargon-free essays cover public policy, teacher unions, economic inequality, race, language diversity, parent involvement, and leadership.

Public Education Under Siege argues for a democratic and egalitarian alternative to the test-driven, market-oriented core of current education reform. These short, jargon-free essays cover public policy, teacher unions, economic inequality, race, language diversity, parent involvement, and leadership.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Perils of Technocratic Educational Reform
Chapter 1. The Mismeasure of Teaching and Learning: How Contemporary School Reform Fails the Test
Chapter 2. Views from the Black of the Math Classroom
Chapter 3. Targeting Teachers
Chapter 4. Firing Line: The Grand Coalition Against Teachers
Chapter 5. The Bipartisan, and Unfounded, Assault on Teachers’ Unions
Chapter 6. Free-Market Think Tanks and the Marketing of Education Policy
Chapter 7. The Price of Human Capital: The Illusion of Equal Educational Opportunity
Chapter 8. Educational Movements, Not Market Moments
Part II. Education, Race, and Poverty
Chapter 9. Public Education as Welfare
Chapter 10. In Search of Equality in School Finance Reform
Chapter 11. “I Want the White People Here!”: The Dark Side of an Urban School Renaissance
Chapter 12. The Rhetoric of Choice: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools
Chapter 13. Criminalizing Kids: The Overlooked Reason for Failing Schools
Part III. Alternatives to Technocratic Reform
Chapter 14. Abandoning the Higher Purposes of Public Schools
Chapter 15. Equity-Minded Instructional Leadership: Turning Up the Volume for English Learners
Chapter 16. Professional Unionism: Redefining the Role of Teachers and Their Unions in Reform Efforts
Chapter 17. Pushing Back: How an Environmental Charter School Resisted Test-Driven Pressures
Chapter 18. The Achievement Gap and the Schools We Need: Creating the Conditions Where Race and Class No Longer Predict Student Achievement
Chapter 19. ¡Ya Basta! Challenging Restrictions on English-Language Learners
Chapter 20. Sharing Responsibility: A Case for Real Parent- School Partnerships
Chapter 21. Calling the Shots in Public Education: Parents, Politicians, and Educators Clash
Part IV. Conclusions
Chapter 22. What Is Education Reform?
Contributors
Acknowledgments