Research Catalog

Title

The phenomenon of Obama and the agenda for education : can hope (still) audaciously trump neoliberalism? / edited by Paul R. Carr, Université du Québec en Outaouais and Brad J. Porfilio, California State University, East Bay.

Publication

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carr, Paul R.
• Porfilio, Bradley J.

Description

xlix, 369 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Government aid to education
• Neoliberalism
• Obama, Barack

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: Barack Obama's neoliberal war on public and democratic education / Paul Street -- Foreword: Challenging the empire's agenda for education (2011, for the first edition) / Christine E. Sleeter -- Introduction: Audaciously espousing hope (well into a second mandate) within a torrent of hegemonic neoliberalism: the Obama educational agenda and the potential for change / Paul R. Carr and Brad J. Porfilio -- Even more of the same: how free market capitalism dominates education / David Hursh -- "The hunger games": a fictional future or a hegemonic reality already governing our lives? / Virginia Lea -- Ignored under Obama: word magic, crisis discourse, and utopian expectations / P.L. Thomas -- The Obama education marketplace and the media: common sense school reform for crisis management / Rebecca A. Goldstein, Sheila L. Macrine, and Nataly Z. Chesky -- Charter schools and the privatization of public schools / Mary Christianakis and Richard Mora -- Undoing manufactured consent: union organizing of charter schools in predominately Latino/a communities / Theresa Montaño and Lynne Aoki -- Dismantling the "commons": undoing the promise of affordable, quality education for a majority of California youth / Roberta Ahlquist -- Obama, Escucha! Estamos en la Lucha! Challenging neoliberalism in Los Angeles schools / Theresa Montaña -- From PACT to Pearson: teacher performance assessment and the corporatization of teacher education / Ann Berlak and Barbara Madeloni -- Value-added measures and the rise of antipublic schooling: the political, economic, and ideological origins of test-based teacher evaluation / Mark Garrison -- The neoliberal metrics of the false proxy and pseudo accountability / Randy L. Hoover -- Empire and education for class consciousness: class war and education in the United States / Rich Gibson and E. Wayne Ross -- Refocusing community engagement: a need for a different accountability / Tina Wagle and Paul Theobald -- If there is anyone out there ... / Peter McLaren -- Afterword: Working the contradictions: the Obama administration's educational policy and democracy to come (from the 2011 edition) / Dennis Carlson -- Afterword: Barack Obama: the final frontier / Peter McLaren -- Afterword: Reclaiming the promise of democratic public education in new times / Dennis Carlson.

Call Number

JFE 16-13899

ISBN

• 9781623968328
• 1623968321
• 9781623968335
• 162396833X

LCCN

2014035284

OCLC

892804069

Title

The phenomenon of Obama and the agenda for education : can hope (still) audaciously trump neoliberalism? / edited by Paul R. Carr, Université du Québec en Outaouais and Brad J. Porfilio, California State University, East Bay.

Publisher

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2015]

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

DU QUEBEC, OUTAOUAIS. COLLECTION OF NEW ARTICLES.

Added Author

Carr, Paul R.

Porfilio, Bradley J.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13899