Unraveling reform rhetoric : what educators need to know and understand /: what educators need to know and understand. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeff Swensson, John Ellis and Michael Shaffer.
• Authors: Swensson, Stuart J; Ellis, John (John G.), 1952-; Shaffer, Michael (Michael Byran)
• Contents: The primary purpose of traditional public education vs. free market theory -- Primer? primer? we don't need a stinking primer! -- Where in the world is traditional public education? -- The mechanisms sold as education in the free market -- Let's meet two advocates for free market schooling -- The sinkhole that is context of the free market -- Free market ATM's from coast-to-coast -- The public good and traditional public education -- What we don't know about the free market hurts -- Students sold short in the free market -- Subtlety in the free market: "yeah, but" -- The free market is a desperate place; traditional public education to the rescue -- What it takes to climb off the limb.
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 371.01; Public schools -- United States; Privatization in education -- United States; School choice -- United States; Educational change -- United States; Educational change; Privatization in education; Public schools; School choice; EDUCATION / Administration / General; EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions; United States; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781475850772; 1475850778
• Related ISBNs: 9781475850758; 1475850751; 9781475850765; 147585076X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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