Potential grizzlies : making the nonsense bearable

"If all humor does indeed come from pain, then American educational policymaking has been a petri dish brimming with hilarity. Even before Betsy DeVos ascended to her perch atop the U.S. Department of Education, her predecessors had offered up an excruciating decade of fodder for satire. Ably a...

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Main Author Welner, Kevin Grant, 1963- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020.
Subjects
Education and state > United States.
Education and state > United States > History.
Education > United States.
Education > United States > History.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > Federal Legislation.
Educational strategies and policy.
Central, national, federal government policies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806604951
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-299-9
Physical Description1 online resource (100 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by david Berliner
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The use of research (or not) by policymakers
  • Chapter 2. Reforminess
  • Chapter 3. School choice
  • Chapter 4. Reading wars
  • Chapter 5. Billionaires and their buddies
  • Chapter 6. Those dreadful teachers
  • Chapter 7. Deregulation, crisis, and closure
  • Chapter 8. Parent trigger
  • Chapter 9. Budget reduction
  • Chapter 10. Class size
  • Chapter 11. Stratified opportunity
  • Chapter 12. Growth mindset
  • Chapter 13. Screen time
  • Chapter 14. Moocs
  • Chapter 15. Higher ed grade inflation
  • Chapter 16. Guns
  • Chapter 17. Childhood obesity and marketing
  • Chapter 18. Covid-19.

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