Combat zone : the continuing war against the public schools

"This book treats this war as part of an extensive social movement that is conducting wars also against government and science, as well as against women, immigrants, the poor (but not against poverty), and, certainly, against unions. However, the book focuses on the war against the public schoo...

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Main Author Shapiro, Arthur S., 1928- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2018]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607624
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-351-7
Physical Description1 online resource (234 pages)

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Check list for destroying public education -- How the war plays out on the battlefield -- The value of public education: the case for the public schools as absolutely indispensable for our modern democracy -- The wars -- Social movements: what are they? how do they work? -- The arsenal of weapons (conceptual tools) in this battle (here's the plan to insiders) -- The great rip-off: education as a corporate money-maker -- What weapons are being used to attack our kids? -- Attacking public school teachers -- Fire bombing public schools -- If we privatize education, who's in charge? a major shift in the control of our public schools -- Stealth attacks: ambushing educators and schools -- Peaceful resolutions: lessons to be learned, developing reconciliation strategies, and recommendations to save our public schools -- Unintended consequences and a very quirky summary, some conclusions and a few implications. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a "This book treats this war as part of an extensive social movement that is conducting wars also against government and science, as well as against women, immigrants, the poor (but not against poverty), and, certainly, against unions. However, the book focuses on the war against the public schools. It sets the stage in Chapter One, Checklist for Destroying Public Education, followed by Chapter Two, How the War Plays Out on the Battlefield - Seven Examples that illustrate and prove the thesis. One example involves a private for-profit company that took over a school district in Michigan, but found that they couldn't make a profit running the high school. So what did they do? They simply closed it, leaving the students high and dry. We provide a chapter analyzing the considerable profits being made by entrepreneurs, businessmen, politicians, testing companies and charter schools. We then describe and analyze the overt and covert attacks on our kids, on teachers and on public schools, such as the clever idea of grading schools A, B, C, D, or F, thereby undermining public confidence in their local schools. We focus on the arsenal of weapons aimed at the public schools, such as privatization, intrusion of politicians into educational decision-making, vouchers, using merit pay and Value-Added Models (VAMs) to evaluate teachers, charter schools, extremely intensive testing, the standards movement, etc. We look at unintended consequences and conclude with attempts at peaceful resolutions and developing reconciliation strategies"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
650 0 |a Public schools  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Privatization in education  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Education  |x Aims and objectives  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Educational accountability  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Education  |x Standards  |z United States. 
650 7 |a Education  |x Schools  |x Types  |x Public.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Independent schools, private education.  |2 thema 
650 7 |a Schools and pre-schools.  |2 thema 
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655 9 |a electronic books  |2 eczenas 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 9781641133500, 9781641133494 
776 0 8 |i PDF version:  |z 9781641133517 
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