Making failure pay : for-profit tutoring, high-stakes testing, and public schools / Jill P. Koyama

Author: Koyama, Jill Peterson
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Copyright Date: ©2010
Physical Description: x, 179 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents

Engaging failure : probing the problematics and politics of policy -- Framing failure : interrogating policy studies, policy theory, and NCLB -- Supplementing failure : providing supplemental educational services -- Accentuating failure : emphasizing the need for "help" -- Neglecting failure : ignoring the need for "help" -- Fabricating failure : making up the need for "help" -- Abandoning failure : diffusing its impact.

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9780226451732 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226451749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226451739 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226451747 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-173) and index.

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