The War Against America's Public Schools: Privatizing Schools, Commercializing Education
- ISBN-10
- 0321080734
- ISBN-13
- 9780321080738
- Category
- Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Allyn and Bacon
- Author
- Gerald Watkins Bracey
Description
Education reform has a long and ignoble history of searching for magic bullets. Charter schools, vouchers, educational management organizations, tuition tax credits, and high-standards movements are all part of the education landscape today. Some reformers are mere opportunists who look at the $700 billion that the United States spends on education and want some of those dollars. Others truly believe that a market-driven system will help. Still others would like to teach religion without having to worry about the First Amendment. The purpose of this book is to summarize and describe these experiments and examine why none can be justified by using the argument that the entire public-school system is in crisis. It provides evidence that the system is actually improving. It argues that slanted, spun, and distorted statistics are used by organizations that fund research, since funding is easier to find if there is a perceived crisis. Perceptions about SAT and NAEP scores, the employees needed for industry, and the comparisons of American students to students of other countries are analyzed. Financial irregularities, unsafe facilities, and unimpressive or debatable results in charter schools are depicted. The inherent inequities of voucher systems are described at length. (Contains 307 references.) (RKJ)
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