Research Catalog

Title

The school reform landscape : fraud, myth, and lies / Christopher H. Tienken and Donald C. Orlich.

Author

Tienken, Christopher

Publication

Lanham, Maryland. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Orlich, Donald C.
• American Association of School Administrators.

Description

xv, 172 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In this book takes a look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. The authors scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the ongoing tensions between the need to keep a vibrant unitary system of public education and the ongoing assault by corporate and elite interests in creating a dual system. Some of events, proposals, and policies critiqued include the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, No Child Left Behind, the lies of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and other common reform schemes.

Subject

• Public schools > United States
• School improvement programs > United States
• Education and state > United States

Note

• Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Liberty and justice for all -- The education reform king with a styrofoam crown -- A catalogue of reform fallacies -- The No Child Left Behind Act -- The path of high-risk implications for public education -- High stakes, low quality -- World-class standards that are too big to fail -- Charter schools: separate but legal -- What now? a way forward.

ISBN

• 9781475802573 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1475802579 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781475802580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1475802587 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781475802597 (electronic)
• 1475802595 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2012046746

OCLC

• 816511862
• SCSB-10671828

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library