Charter schools and the corporate makeover of public education : what's at stake?

Fabricant, Michael. (Author). Fine, Michelle. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0807752851 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780807752852 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xiii, 151 p. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, c2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-141) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

4. Interlocking power and the deregulation of public education : The influence of wealth on public policy ; The state and philanthropy ; The charter campaign and political mobilization of the private sector: the case of New York State ; Charter schools and the maximization of economic gain: profiting from the privatization of public schools ; The slippery question of profit and the consolidation of power ; Partnership and profit in the game of educational privatization ; Claiming market share: strategic organizing of the charter campaign ; Collateral damage: the loss of accountability ; Reflections on politics, economics, and ideology -- 5. "Crisis": a moment for dispossession and profit : In a landscape of inequality: whose crisis is it anyway? ; After the floods: charter growth in New Orleans ; Building an education renaissance: Chicago and charter education ; Declaring "crisis": school closings and charter openings in New York City ; A geography and archeology of dispossession: tracking the policies and their impact ; Making a science of dispossession: focus on testing, ignore dropout ; The dropout epidemic ; Conclusion -- 6. Reclaiming "public": deepening national commitments to public investment and public innovation : New Jersey: the budget crisis and public education ; The binary tradeoffs of charter policy ; Provocative images of public innovation ; Toward a new consensus: the increasing call for investment to spur innovation and foster effective schooling ; Reimagining and reinvesting in a public education ; Conclusion.