Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public
Education examines the divide between a commitment to public
education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to
consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in
the context of the following: the historical and conflicting
purposes in public education-how schools became
positivistic/behavioural in our quest to produce workers for
industry; the accountability era-how A Nation at Risk through NCLB
have served corporate interest in dismantling public education and
dissolving teachers unions; the media and misinformation about
education; charter schools as political/corporate compromise
masking poverty; demonising schools and scapegoating teachers-from
misusing the SAT to VAM evaluations of teachers; rethinking the
purpose of schools-shifting from schools as social saviours to
addressing poverty so that public education can fulfil its purpose
of empowering everyone in a democracy; and reframing how we view
people living in poverty-rejecting deficit views of people living
in poverty and students struggling in school under the weight of
lives in poverty. This work is intended to confront the growing
misinformation about the interplay among poverty, public schools,
and what schools can accomplish while political and corporate
leadership push agendas aimed at replacing public education with
alternatives such as charter schools. The audience for the
publication includes educators, educational reformers, politicians,
and any member of the wider public interested in public education.
CONTENTS Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1: ""Universal
Public Education:'Two Possible-and Contradictory-Missions'.""
Chapter 2: ""Politicians Who Cry `Crisis': Education Accountability
as Masking."" Chapter 3: ""Legend of the Fall: Snapshots of What's
Wrong in the Education Debate."" Chapter 4: ""The Great Charter
Compromise: Masking Corporate Commitments in Educational Reform.""
Chapter 5: ""The Teaching Profession as a Service Industry.""
Chapter 6: ""'If Education Cannot Do Everything...': Education as
Communal Praxis."" Chapter 7: ""Confronting Poverty Again for the
First Time: Rising above Deficit Perspectives."" Conclusion. Note.
References. Author/Editor Bio.
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