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The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education : Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism?

Carr, Paul R.

The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education : Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (357 pages) - Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society Series . - Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society Series .

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- The Phenomenonof Obama and the Agenda for Education -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Early praise for The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section I: Using Historical and Theoretical Insights to Understand Obama's Educational Agenda -- Chapter 1: More of the Same -- Chapter 2: Concocting Crises to Create Consent -- Chapter 3: Educational Hope Ignored Under Obama -- Chapter 4: Competing Definitions of Hope in Obama's Education Marketplace -- Section II: The Perils of Neoliberal Schooling: Critiquing Corporatized Forms of Schooling and a Sober Assessment of Where Obama is Taking Us -- Chapter 5: Charting a New Course for Public Education Through Charter Schools -- Chapter 6: Manufactured Consent -- Chapter 7: Whose Schools are These Anyway-American Dream or Nightmare? -- Chapter 8: Obama, Escucha! Estamos en la Lucha! -- Chapter 9: Standardized Teacher Performance Assessment -- Chapter 10: The Political Economy of Educational Restructuring -- Section III: Envisioning New Schools and a New Social World: Stories of Resistence, Hope, and Transformation -- Chapter 11: The Education Agenda is a War Agenda -- Chapter 12: Connecting Communities and Schools -- Chapter 13: If There is Anyone Out There . . . -- Afterword -- Biographies.

9781617354526


Obama, Barack.
Government aid to education.
Neoliberalism.


Electronic books.

LB2341.98 .P45 2011

379.1/1

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