Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools - Tapa blanda

Koyama, Jill P.

 
9780226451749: Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools
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ISBN 10: 0226451747 ISBN 13: 9780226451749
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Sinopsis

A little-discussed aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that requires failing schools to hire after-school tutoring companies - the largest of which are private, for-profit corporations - and to pay them with federal funds. "Making Failure Pay" takes a hard look at the implications of this new blurring of the boundaries between government, schools, and commerce in New York City, the country's largest school district. As Jill P. Koyama explains in this revelatory book, NCLB - a federally legislated, state-regulated, district-administered, and school-applied policy - explicitly legitimizes giving private organizations significant roles in public education. Based on her three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Koyama finds that the results are political and problematic - and highly profitable. Bringing to light these unproven, unregulated private companies' almost invisible partnership with the government, "Making Failure Pay" lays bare the unintended consequences of federal efforts to eliminate school failure - not the least of which is more failure.

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Jill P. Koyama is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0226451747
ISBN 13 
9780226451749
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Número de páginas
192
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