The Gates Foundation and the Future of Us "Public" Schools

Herausgeber: Kovacs, Philip E

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationa (TM)s efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organizationa (TM)s work. While the Gates Foundation is the single largest supporter by far of "choice" initiatives particularly with regard to charter school formation, it is pushing public school privatization through a wide array of initiatives and in conjunction with a number of other foundations. What are the implications for a public system as control over educational policy and priority is concentrated under one of the richest people on the planet in ways that foster de-unionization and teacher de-skilling while homogenizing school models and curriculum? The Gates Foundation and the Future of US "Public" Schools addresses this crucial, unanswered question while investigating the relationships between the Gates Foundation and other think tanks, government, and corporate institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 169mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415873345
• ISBN-10: 0415873347
• Artikelnr.: 30881497

Autorenporträt

Philip E. Kovacs is assistant professor of education at UAHuntsville.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Deron Boyles. Acknowledgments. 1. From Carnegie to Gates: The Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Venture Philanthropy Agenda for Public
Education Kenneth J. Saltman 2. Power Philanthropy: Taking the Public Out
of Public Education Michael Klonsky 3. The Gates Foundation's Interventions
into Education, Health, and Food Policies: Technology, Power, and the
Privatization of Political Problems David Hursh 4. Marketing New Schools
for a New Century: An Examination of Neoliberal School Reform in New York
City Jessica Shiller 5. Corporatism, KIPP, and Cultural Eugenics Jim Horn
6. Disabusing Small-Schools Reformism: An Alternative Outlook on Scaling Up
and Down Aimee Howley and Craig B. Howley 7. Governing Identity Through
Neoliberal Education Initiatives: "Get[ting] Schooled" in the Marketplace
Leslee Grey 8. The Gates' Foundation and the Future of U.S. Public
Education: A Call for Scholars to Counter Misinformation Campaigns Philip
E. Kovacs and H.K. Christie 9. The Giving Business: Venture Philanthropy
and the NewSchools Venture Fund Jim Horn and Ken Libby 10. Dear Bill:
"Grokking' Education Patti Lather 11. An Open Letter to Bill Gates, Jr.
(With a Message to My Colleagues) David Gabbard 12. Why Current Education
Reform Efforts Will Fail Marion Brady