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Name: Corporatizing Public Schools
ID: m14492
Language: English (en)
Summary: There can be no question that P-12 education was one of the more volatile issues during recent local, state, and federal elections. Reform initiatives were being touted by virtually all of the candidates whose names appeared on the November ballots. Data supporting success of many of these reform initiatives, particularly those in great favor with the political right, simply do not exist (see Hudson, 1998; Kohn, 2000; McNeil, 2000; McNeil & Valenzuela, 2000; Nevi, 2001; Ohanian, 2002; Popham, 2001; Smith & Ruhl-Smith, 2002a; Smith & Ruhl-Smith, 2002b; Smith & Ruhl-Smith, 2004). For those willing to carefully investigate the claims most commonly made in support of the corporate-driven reform efforts endorsed by conservatives and conservative groups, it is obvious that “the emperor has no clothing” (Smith & Ruhl-Smith, 2004). For-profit schools are in no significant way out-performing their public P-12 counterparts. Standardized instruments for the assessment of student learning toward specific outcomes are frequently unable to document evidence of “true” learning. Corporations that produce such standardized instruments and supporting preparation materials have proven unable to meet “guaranteed timelines” but, nonetheless, continue to generate profits at rates astronomically greater than the growth in virtually any other sector of the U.S. economy.
Subject: Social Sciences
Keywords: NCPEA, school reform
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu)
Copyright Holders: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu)
Maintainers: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Apr 27, 2007 9:38 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: May 2, 2007 2:34 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m14492_1.1.cnxml

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Version: 1.1 May 2, 2007 2:34 pm GMT-5 by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
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