Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in
schooling, Capitalizing on Disaster dissects the most powerful
educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise
of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several
decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public
schooling through business ventures. At the beginning of the
millennium, this privatization project looked moribund as both the
Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe foundered. Nonetheless,
privatization is back.The new face of educational privatization
replaces public schooling with EMOs, vouchers, and charter schools
at an alarming rate. In both disaster and nondisaster areas,
officials designate schools as failed in order to justify
replacement with new, unproven models. Saltman examines how
privatization policies such as No Child Left Behind are designed to
deregulate schools, favoring business while undermining public
oversight. Examining current policies in New Orleans, Chicago, and
Iraq, Capitalizing on Disaster shows how the struggle for public
schooling is essential to the struggle for a truly democratic
society.
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