Reclaiming our children, reclaiming our schools : reversing privatization and recovering democracy in America's public schools / Eric Shyman

Author: Shyman, Eric, 1979-
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Copyright Date: ©2017
Physical Description: xiii, 140 pages ; 23 cm

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How we got here: education reform in a nutshell -- Be American: assimilation and the dominant middle-class ethic in schools -- Public peril and corporate promise: civil rights, school choice, and the panacea of privatization -- One nation under corporatization: the government and the neoliberal education market -- Foundation for fabrication: the boisterous rise and tacit failure of the charter school -- Local kids, local control: crafting the decentralization of schooling across the world -- Real value added: respecting teachers and educationists in education reform policy -- Appreciation, education, innovation: the Finnish example of teacher education -- Power without dominance: governing schools through participatory decision making -- Let the teachers teach: nurturing respect and trust for teachers and the teaching profession -- Citizenship: a local and global necessity for a true value to schooling -- A place for everyone: culturally responsive teaching -- Real partnerships, real choice: uniting students, teachers, and parents to effect genuine community investment -- Building the school to society pipeline: mass education, not mass incarceration -- The parameters of earnestness: essential elements for true change.

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9781475829891 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1475829892 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781475829907 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1475829906 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references.

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