Capitalizing on Disaster Taking and Breaking Public Schools

Name: Capitalizing on Disaster Taking and Breaking Public Schools
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ISBN: 9781594513824

ISBN-10: 1594513821

ISBN-13: 9781594513824

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in schooling, Capitalizing on Disaster dissects the most powerful educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public schooling through business ventures. At the beginning of the millennium, this privatization project looked moribund as both the Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe foundered. Nonetheless, privatization is back. The new face of educational privatization replaces public schooling with EMOs, vouchers, and charter schools at an alarming rate. In both disaster and nondisaster areas,…

Book details

List price: $63.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Kenneth J. Saltman is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago. He is author most recently of The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education (Routledge 2005).



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Smash and Grab: Schooling in Disaster Capitalism



Silver Linings and Golden Opportunities: The Corporate Plunder of Public Schooling in Post-Katrina New Orleans



Creative Associates International, Incorporated: Corporate Schooling and "Democracy Promotion" in Iraq



Renaissance 2010 and No Child Left Behind: Breaking and Taking Schools and Communities


Conclusion: From Dispossession to Possession: Making Educational Facts on the Ground


Index


About the Author