Losing America's Schools : The Fight to Reclaim Public Education.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note -- 1 Corporate Takeover -- School Privatization -- New American Schools -- Edison Schools -- The Sandia Report -- The Business Roundtable -- Venture Philanthropy -- Walton Family Foundation -- Broad Foundation -- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- High-Stakes Testing -- Common Core State Standards -- Teachers Unions -- American Legislative Exchange Council -- Conclusion: America's Schools -- Notes -- 2 Replacing Public Schools with Charter Schools -- Lost Opportunity -- Nonprofit/For-Profit -- Charter versus Public Schools -- Segregation -- Special Education -- KIPP -- Conclusion: The End of Charter Schools -- Notes -- 3 Students, Jobs, and the Global Economy -- Scapegoats -- Standards -- College for All -- Privatized High School Programs -- STEM -- Vocational-Career and Technical Education -- Dropouts -- The Military -- Conclusion: Careers -- Notes -- 4 Religion's Threat to Public Schools -- Horace Mann -- Churches -- Charter Schools -- Vouchers -- Character Education -- Conclusion: Separation of Church and State -- Notes -- 5 Vanishing Professions-Teachers and School Leaders -- Deprofessionalization -- Teach for America -- The New Teacher Project -- Colleges of Education -- Teacher Certification -- National Council on Teacher Quality -- New Leaders -- Superintendents and School Leaders -- Michelle Rhee -- Secretary of Education -- Conclusion: Educators -- Notes -- 6 Virtual versus Brick-and-Mortar Public Schools -- Disruption -- Online Schools -- Privatizing Online Schools -- K12 Inc. -- School of the Future -- Rocketship -- Student Privacy -- Competency-Based Education -- Conclusion: Real Schools and Teachers -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

Losing America's Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education is a call to save one of the last great democratic institutions in America. Corporatization, charter schools, misleading claims of skill gaps, the loss of Separation of Church and State, deprofessionalization, and the over-use of technology all threaten the existence of the schools that belong to all Americans. This book addresses the problems surrounding those issues, and is a tribute to the groups and individuals who are fighting draconian reforms in order to save our public schools.

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