The Origins of the Common Core

Name: The Origins of the Common Core
Author: D. Owens

How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2015

ISBN13: 9781137482679

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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2015 9781137482679

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Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781137482679

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

Hoofdrubriek:Mens en maatschappij

Inhoudsopgave

1. The Nation Was at Risk and the Public Schools Did It 2. Public Schools: Conservative Coalescence and the Socialist Threat 3. Friedmanomics, School Vouchers and Choice 4. Corporate Superstars and an Inconvenient Truth 5. Public Schools and a Third Way of Governing 6. NCLB and the Texas Tall Tale 7. Education Reform and the Deep State: An Alternate Universe 8. The CCSS: Systemic Education Reform Writ Large 9. CCSS: The Gorilla in the Room for Free Market Education Reform