Alternatives to privatizing public education and curriculum : a festschrift in honor of Dale D. Johnson

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    • Ness, Daniel
    • Farenga, Stephen J.

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Alternatives to privatizing public education and curriculum : a festschrift in honor of Dale D. Johnson

edited by Daniel Ness and Stephen J. Farenga

(Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism, 12)

Routledge, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this book takes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from public interest and control to private and corporate shareholder hegemony. Most states' educational responsibilities-assessment of constituents, curriculum development, and instructional protocols-are increasingly being outsourced to private enterprises in an effort to reduce state budgets. These enterprises have been given wide access to state resources such as public data from state-sanctioned testing results, field-testing rights to public schools, and financial assistance. Chapter authors challenge this paradigm as well as the model that has set growing premiums on accountability and performance measures. Connecting common impact between the standards movement and the privatization of education, this book lays bare the repercussions of high-stakes accountability coupled with increasing privatization. Winner of The Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018)

Table of Contents

Section I: Challenging the Audit Culture 1. The Sadism of School Reform William F. Pinar 2. Death by Numbers: The Loss of Humanity in the Age of Audit Peter Taubman 3. Defending Teacher Education from edTPA . . . and Itself Todd Alan Price 4. Disrupting U.S. Empire: Creating Subjects to Expand the "Commons" and the Public Good Roberta Ahlquist 5. SCALE Down, SCALE Back!: Academic Freedom under Siege through Standards Proliferation by Para- Educational Enterprises Stephen J. Farenga & Daniel Ness Section II: Contributions to Literacy and Language Development 6. We Could Teach Every Child to Read But the Unanswered Question Is: Will we? Richard L. Allington 7. Intervention Assessment of Literacy to Inform Teaching and Increase Learning Jeanne R. Paratore & Roselmina Indrisano 8. One Size Fits None: Re-Conceptualizing Literacy Instruction for Diverse Learners Evan Ortlieb & Autumn M. Dodge Section III: Easing the Plight of Children 9. "Every Day She Drunk or Gone": Poverty, Persuasion, Peddlers, and Privatization Bonnie Johnson 10. Seduction of "East Asian" Schools Barbara S. S. Hong 11. Conditions of Success for Teenage Mothers: Revisiting School Achievement on the Margins Elizabeth Chase 12. What's Common in Core Curricula? Isabel Nunez 13. Dehumanization and Violence: Symptoms from a Neoliberal City Kay Fujioshi Section IV: Challenging Education Inequity in Urban Environments 14. The Racial Oppression of Social Justice: Inequities in Chicago Public Schools Carl A. Grant 15. Choosing a Faculty Union over Faculty Governance in Public Education: A Case Study of a Single Teacher Certification Policy in New York David Gerwin 16. The Anatomy of Dissent as Teachers Plan and Lead a Demonstration in Seattle: Intersections of Hope, Agency, and Collective Action Richard D. Sawyer

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