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This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S.
and Britain over the last twenty-five years. Hursh argues that
education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed,
first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently
through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized
tests, and currently, efforts to introduce market competition and
private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an
alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education
complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis
on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.
This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S.
and Britain over the last twenty-five years. Hursh argues that
education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed,
first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently
through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized
tests, and currently, efforts to introduce market competition and
private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an
alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education
complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis
on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.
This timely book situates environmental education within and
against neoliberalism, the dominant economic, political, and
cultural ideology impacting both education and the environment.
Proponents of neoliberalism imagine and enact a world where the
primary role of the state is to promote capital markets, and where
citizens are defined as autonomous entrepreneurs who are to fulfill
their needs via competition with, and surveillance of, others.
These ideas interact with environmental issues in a number of ways
and Neoliberalism and Environmental Education engages this
interplay with chapters on how neoliberal ideas and actions shape
environmental education in formal, informal and community contexts.
International contributors consider these interactions in
agriculture and gardening, state policy enactments, environmental
science classrooms, ecoprisons, and in professional management and
educational accountability programs. The collection invites readers
to reexamine how economic policy and politics shape the cultural
enactment of environmental education. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.
This timely book situates environmental education within and
against neoliberalism, the dominant economic, political, and
cultural ideology impacting both education and the environment.
Proponents of neoliberalism imagine and enact a world where the
primary role of the state is to promote capital markets, and where
citizens are defined as autonomous entrepreneurs who are to fulfill
their needs via competition with, and surveillance of, others.
These ideas interact with environmental issues in a number of ways
and Neoliberalism and Environmental Education engages this
interplay with chapters on how neoliberal ideas and actions shape
environmental education in formal, informal and community contexts.
International contributors consider these interactions in
agriculture and gardening, state policy enactments, environmental
science classrooms, ecoprisons, and in professional management and
educational accountability programs. The collection invites readers
to reexamine how economic policy and politics shape the cultural
enactment of environmental education. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.
The rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation
has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central
to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar
reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar
for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection,
such as inBloom. In New York, the two parent/teacher organizations
that have been most effective are Long Island Opt Out and New York
State Allies for Public Education. Over the last four years, they
and other groups have focused on having parents refuse to submit
their children to the testing regime, arguing that if students
don't take the tests, the results are't usable. The opt-out
movement has been so successful that 20% of students statewide and
50% of students on Long Island refused to take tests. In Opting
Out, two parent leaders of the opt-out movement-Jeanette Deutermann
and Lisa Rudley-tell why and how they became activists in the two
organizations. The story of parents, students, and teachers
resisting not only high-stakes testing but also privatization and
other corporate reforms parallels the rise of teachers across the
country going on strike to demand increases in school funding and
teacher salaries. Both the success of the opt-out movement and
teacher strikes reflect the rise of grassroots organizing using
social media to influence policy makers at the local, state, and
national levels.
The rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation
has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central
to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar
reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar
for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection,
such as inBloom. In New York, the two parent/teacher organizations
that have been most effective are Long Island Opt Out and New York
State Allies for Public Education. Over the last four years, they
and other groups have focused on having parents refuse to submit
their children to the testing regime, arguing that if students
don't take the tests, the results are't usable. The opt-out
movement has been so successful that 20% of students statewide and
50% of students on Long Island refused to take tests. In Opting
Out, two parent leaders of the opt-out movement-Jeanette Deutermann
and Lisa Rudley-tell why and how they became activists in the two
organizations. The story of parents, students, and teachers
resisting not only high-stakes testing but also privatization and
other corporate reforms parallels the rise of teachers across the
country going on strike to demand increases in school funding and
teacher salaries. Both the success of the opt-out movement and
teacher strikes reflect the rise of grassroots organizing using
social media to influence policy makers at the local, state, and
national levels.
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