Introduction -- The alienation of fact: the resurgence of radical empiricism in education -- Social impact bonds/pay for success -- Student income loans: transferring wealth to investors, risk to students -- "Philanthrocapitalism" and personalized learning: the case of the Chan Zuckerberg initiative -- Charter school real estate schemes and the theft of agency: Andre Agassi and the celebrity branding of schools -- Smashing the swindle
Summary:
How "innovative" finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance. Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs win support despite being unsupported by empirical evidence. - cover
