Big Box Schools

Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Lori Latrice Martin

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The American public school system is at a crossroad. One pathway is decorated with signs and institutions that will lead public education towards a destination of collective obligation, accountability, and responsibility that is student-centered, community-based, and driven by educators and parents working in the best interest of students, families, communities, and the broader society. The other pathway is littered with pamphlets, flyers, and electronic billboards falsely advertising the merits of school “choice.” The direction American public schools appear to have taken over the past few decades is increasingly dotted with charter schools operated by for-profit multinational corporations, and themed public schools. Increasingly, efforts to reform public education in America resemble the business model made popular by the founder of Wal-Mart, Sam Walton. Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America examines the dangers of the Wal-Martization of American public schools and highlights efforts to challenge policies and practices which place greater emphasis on profits than on pupils.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-04-21
Mått162 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRace and Education in the Twenty-First Century
Antal sidor186
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498510417

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Chapter 1: Public Schools and Pathways to Prosperity Chapter 2: History of Race and Public Education in America Chapter 3: Education as a Profit Machine Chapter 4: Race, Public Education and the Wal-Mart Model Chapter 5: Education and Today’s Black Working-Class: Low Quality, Low Prices, Low Wages Chapter 6: Does Common Core Make Common Sense? Chapter 7: Plutocracies the Displacement of Indigenous Organizations and Educational Leaders Chapter 8: Fighting Back: Changing Trajectory of Public Education in America Chapter 9: Worth the Fight

Martin, as others before her, urges closer consideration of the collateral damage of privatizing tendencies. The questions she asks about privatizing effects on community cohesion are important, as is her candid treatment of how race matters in privatization in general and in education specifically…. The big box of privatization is wide and deep, and its contents are typically off limits to the general public. Scholarship that pries the box open and helps us see the contents for what they are (not just how they are advertised) remains important. Big Box Schools moves us a step forward in this direction.