The Takeover Of Public Education In America
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| Author | : A. Patrick Huff |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 149696859X |
The Takeover of Public Education in America: The Agenda to Control Information and Knowledge Through the Accountability System is an informative and insightful look into the mechanism that controls school systems today. It provides a look back into the history of how the system developed into what we have today and peels the curtain back to reveal what is crippling the schools across the country. Testimony is given from education professionals and parents who have lost their community schools to the devastating impact of No Child Left Behind mandates and its accountability system. Find out why teachers and school administrators stay in a constant state of preparation for the next round of testing. Discover the effects of failing to meet standards, and see the heavy hand of national policy take away jobs and deprive students of attending their neighborhood school. Become aware of who is benefiting from the current state of public education. Billions of dollars are at stake as corporations position themselves to make huge profits as public schools struggle to gain acceptable ratings and companies are called upon to rescue the children from a failing school. Learn what must be done if the teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents are to have any chance of reclaiming sovereignty over their profession and the schools their children attend. Finally, learn how technology and testing have served to limit a childs education through the agenda to control information and knowledge.
| Author | : Domingo Morel |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0190678976 |
State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. In most U.S. cities, local governments are responsible for decisions concerning matters such as the local water supply and school affairs. However, once a state takes over, this decision-making capability is shuttled. Despite the widespread attention that takeovers in Flint and Detroit have gained, we know little about how such takeovers--a policy option that has been in use since the 1980s--affect political power in local communities. By focusing on takeovers of local school districts, this book offers the first systematic study of state takeovers of local governments. Although many major U.S. cities have experienced state takeovers of their local school districts, we know little about the political causes and consequences of takeovers. Complicating this phenomenon are the justifications for state takeokers; while they are assumedly based on concerns with poor academic performance, questions of race and political power play a critical role in the takeover of local school districts. However, Domingo Morel brings clarity to these questions and limitations--he examines the factors that contribute to state takeovers as well as the effects and political implications of takeovers on racialized communities, the communities most often affected by them. Morel both lays out the conditions under which the policy will disempower or empower racial and ethnic minority populations, and expands our understanding of urban politics. Morel argues that state interventions are a part of the new normal for cities and offers a novel theoretical framework for understanding the presence of the state in America's urban areas. The book is built around an original study of nearly 1000 school districts, including every school district that has been taken over by their respective state, and a powerful case study of Newark, New Jersey.
| Author | : Raynard Sanders |
| Publisher | : Education and Struggle |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Business and education |
| ISBN | : 9781433137440 |
The coup d'état -- Privatize public education: New Orleans the perfect place -- Intended and unintended consequences; the assault on the children and the citizens in New Orleans -- School communities disenfranchised and destroyed -- The New Orleans public school gold rush -- New Orleans publicly funded private school system.
| Author | : Lance Izumi |
| Publisher | : Encounter Books |
| Total Pages | : 39 |
| Release | : 2011-12-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1594036292 |
President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing – in addition to huge spending commitments by the federal government ¬– shift the policymaking power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy. In this Broadside, Lance Izumi examines Obama’s education policies and shows us why Americans must protect and promote the power of individuals, especially parents, to control children’s education. We should look to the revolutionary school-choice and parental-empowerment laws passed by key states and other nations such as Canada. While Obama is pushing American education in the wrong direction, we can steer it back to local control.
| Author | : David L. Kirp |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0199391092 |
In Improbable Scholars, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this compelling study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work.
| Author | : David Osborne |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2017-09-05 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1632869918 |
From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.
| Author | : William G. Howell |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2005-04-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0815797699 |
School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. As recent mayoral and state takeovers in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York make abundantly clear, school boards that do not fulfill the expectations of other political players may be stripped of what few independent powers they still retain. Teachers unions exert growing influence over board decision-making processes. And with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has aggressively inserted itself into matters of local education governance. B esieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. A group of highly renowned scholars, relying on both careful case studies and quantitative analyses, examine how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public. For the most part, the picture that emerges is sobering: while school boards perform certain administrative functions quite well, the political pressures they face undermine their capacity to institute the wide-ranging school reforms that many voters and local leaders are currently demanding.
| Author | : Diane Ravitch |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2020-01-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0525655387 |
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools. Diane Ravitch writes of a true grassroots movement sweeping the country, from cities and towns across America, a movement dedicated to protecting public schools from those who are funding privatization and who believe that America’s schools should be run like businesses and that children should be treated like customers or products. Slaying Goliath is about the power of democracy, about the dangers of plutocracy, and about the potential of ordinary people—armed like David with only a slingshot of ideas, energy, and dedication—to prevail against those who are trying to divert funding away from our historic system of democratically governed, nonsectarian public schools. Among the lessons learned from the global pandemic of 2020 is the importance of our public schools and their teachers and the fact that distance learning can never replace human interaction, the pesonal connection between teachers and students.
| Author | : Douglas N. Harris |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2020-07-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 022669478X |
In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthinkable experiment—eliminating the traditional public education system and completely replacing it with charter schools and school choice. Fifteen years later, the results have been remarkable, and the complex lessons learned should alter the way we think about American education. New Orleans became the first US city ever to adopt a school system based on the principles of markets and economics. When the state took over all of the city’s public schools, it turned them over to non-profit charter school managers accountable under performance-based contracts. Students were no longer obligated to attend a specific school based upon their address, allowing families to act like consumers and choose schools in any neighborhood. The teacher union contract, tenure, and certification rules were eliminated, giving schools autonomy and control to hire and fire as they pleased. In Charter School City, Douglas N. Harris provides an inside look at how and why these reform decisions were made and offers many surprising findings from one of the most extensive and rigorous evaluations of a district school reform ever conducted. Through close examination of the results, Harris finds that this unprecedented experiment was a noteworthy success on almost every measurable student outcome. But, as Harris shows, New Orleans was uniquely situated for these reforms to work well and that this market-based reform still required some specific and active roles for government. Letting free markets rule on their own without government involvement will not generate the kinds of changes their advocates suggest. Combining the evidence from New Orleans with that from other cities, Harris draws out the broader lessons of this unprecedented reform effort. At a time when charter school debates are more based on ideology than data, this book is a powerful, evidence-based, and in-depth look at how we can rethink the roles for governments, markets, and nonprofit organizations in education to ensure that America’s schools fulfill their potential for all students.
| Author | : Clifford Kincaid |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2016-08-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781536826364 |
Several excellent books have been written about leftist domination of higher education. This book goes further, making the case that the old brick-and-mortar schools which have been taken over by the left can and should be replaced with true centers of learning that offer real academic freedom, and courses that teach marketable skills at a reduced cost. The kind of "political revolution" we need in this country is not of the socialist variety. Rather, it's a way forward that offers real learning through alternative educational institutions that provide online opportunities and career-advancement to students where they live and work. It means defunding the expensive and corrupt "Marxist Madrassas" and launching a true revolution in learning.ASI President Cliff Kincaid argues that the process of subversion in higher education has been going on too long, even at Catholic colleges, to hope for reform of the academic institutions that have been captured and rotted from within. "We need to defund those that already exist, and create new institutions to replace those in the hands of the cultural Marxists," he says. "Breaking up the liberal media monopoly has been a great step forward. Breaking up the liberal monopoly in higher education has yet to be accomplished. It is absolutely essential, however, in order to maintain academic freedom and freedom in general in society. Dr. Tina Trent notes that, "As growing numbers of students and their parents are finally noticing, American college and university campuses rank among the least intellectually free places in our nation." She analyzes the State University of New York at New Paltz, which banned Cliff Kincaid from campus in March of 2016, and its Office of Compliance and Campus Climate.
