1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996297348403316

Titolo

Design/build business

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Glendale, Calif., : McKellar Publications, ©1996-

Fort Atkinson, WI, : Cygnus Business Media

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

338.4/769/00979

Soggetti

Building

Architecture

Construction

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910984613503321

Autore

Asen Robert

Titolo

School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy : How Market-Based Education Reform Fails Our Communities / / Robert Asen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, PA : , : Penn State University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9780271091518

0271091517

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; ; 26

Disciplina

379.111

Soggetti

EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Competing Discourses and Contrasting Visions of Education -- 1 Democracy as a Way of Life: John Dewey’s Vision for Individuals and Their Relationships -- 2 Markets as a Way of Life: The Friedmans’ Vision for Individuals and Their Relationships -- 3 Competition and Innovation in the Education Industry: Betsy DeVos’s Campaign for School Choice -- 4 Growing Markets, Diminishing Democracy: The Statewide Expansion of Vouchers in Wisconsin -- 5 Connecting Schools and Communities: Local Advocacy for Public Education -- Conclusion: Means, Ends, and Public Education -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K–12 education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting in poorer learning conditions, underpaid teachers, and greater inequality. But, as Robert Asen reveals here, the damage that market-based education reform inflicts on society runs much deeper. At their core, these efforts are antidemocratic.Arguing that democratic communities and public education need one another, Asen examines the theory driving privatization, popularized in the neoliberalism of Milton and Rose Friedman, as well as the case for school choice promoted by former secretary of education Betsy DeVos and the controversial voucher program of former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. What Asen finds is that a market-based approach holds not just a different view of



distributing education but a different vision of society. When the values of the market—choice, competition, and self-interest—shape national education, that policy produces individuals, Asen contends, with no connections to community and no obligations to one another. The result is a society at odds with democracy.Probing and thought-provoking, School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy features interviews with local, on-the-ground advocates for public education and offers a countering vision of democratic education—one oriented toward civic relationships, community, and equality. This book is essential reading for policymakers, advocates of public education, citizens, and researchers.