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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459919403321

Titolo

The Gates Foundation and the future of U.S. "public" schools / / edited by Philip E. Kovacs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-85300-6

1-136-85301-4

1-283-04209-6

9786613042095

0-203-83494-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

KovacsPhilip E

Disciplina

371.010973

379.73

Soggetti

Educational change - United States

Public schools - United States

Endowments - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 From Carnegie to Gates: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Venture Philanthropy Agenda for Public Education; 2 Power Philanthropy: Taking the Public Out of Public Education; 3 The Gates Foundation's Interventions into Education, Health, and Food Policies: Technology, Power, and the Privatization of Political Problems; 4 Marketing New Schools for a New Century: An Examination of Neoliberal School Reform in New York City; 5 Corporatism, KIPP, and Cultural Eugenics

6 Disabusing Small-Schools Reformism: An Alternative Outlook on Scaling Up and Down7 Governing Identity through Neoliberal Education Initiatives: 'Get[ting] Schooled' in the Marketplace; 8 The Gates' Foundation and the Future of U.S. Public Education: A Call for Scholars to Counter Misinformation Campaigns; 9 The Giving Business: Venture Philanthropy and the NewSchools Venture Fund; 10 Dear Bill: 'Grokking'



Education; 11 An Open Letter to Bill Gates, Jr. (with a Message to My Colleagues); 12 Why Current Education Reform Efforts Will Fail; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organization'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