The Gates Foundation and the Future of US Public Schools

Herausgeber: Kovacs, Philip E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are the implications when the educational policy and priority of public schools are concentrated in ways that foster de-unionization and teacher de-skilling while homogenizing school models and curriculum? This volume addresses this crucial, unanswered question while investigating the impact of the Gates Foundation on education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780415536639
• ISBN-10: 0415536634
• Artikelnr.: 54572448

Autorenporträt

Philip E. Kovacs is assistant professor of education at UAHuntsville.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Deron Boyles. Acknowledgments. 1. From Carnegie to Gates: The Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Venture Philanthropy Agenda for Public
Education Kenneth J. Saltman 2. Power Philanthropy: Taking the Public Out
of Public Education Michael Klonsky 3. The Gates Foundation's Interventions
into Education, Health, and Food Policies: Technology, Power, and the
Privatization of Political Problems David Hursh 4. Marketing New Schools
for a New Century: An Examination of Neoliberal School Reform in New York
City Jessica Shiller 5. Corporatism, KIPP, and Cultural Eugenics Jim Horn
6. Disabusing Small-Schools Reformism: An Alternative Outlook on Scaling Up
and Down Aimee Howley and Craig B. Howley 7. Governing Identity Through
Neoliberal Education Initiatives: "Get[ting] Schooled" in the Marketplace
Leslee Grey 8. The Gates' Foundation and the Future of U.S. Public
Education: A Call for Scholars to Counter Misinformation Campaigns Philip
E. Kovacs and H.K. Christie 9. The Giving Business: Venture Philanthropy
and the NewSchools Venture Fund Jim Horn and Ken Libby 10. Dear Bill:
"Grokking' Education Patti Lather 11. An Open Letter to Bill Gates, Jr.
(With a Message to My Colleagues) David Gabbard 12. Why Current Education
Reform Efforts Will Fail Marion Brady