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Hidden markets : the new education privatization / Patricia Burch.

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Author/Creator:
Burch, Patricia.
Language:
English
Imprint:
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Format:
  • Book
  • xv, 181 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index.
Contents:
  • Trends and origins
  • Inside the market
  • Privatization and its intermediaries
  • Shadow privatization : local experiences with supplemental education services
  • Invisible influences : for-profit firms and virtual charter schools
  • In the interstices : benchmark assessments, district contracts, and NCLB
  • Working for transparency
  • Appendix A: Research design and methodology
  • Appendix B: New privatization trends and questions conjoined
  • Appendix C: Characteristic companies.
Publisher's Summary:
Across the U.S., test publishers, software companies, and research firms are swarming to take advantage of the revenues made available by the No Child Left Behind Act. In effect, the education industry has assumed a central place in the day-to-day governance and administration of public schools - a trend that has gone largely unnoticed by policymakers or the press until now. Drawing on analytic tools, Hidden Markets examines specific domains that the education industry has had particular influence on - home schooling, remedial instruction, management consulting, test development, data management, and staff development. Burch's analysis demonstrates that only when we subject the education industry to systematic and in-depth critical analysis can we begin to demand more corporate accountability and organize to halt the slide of education funds into the market.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Series:
The critical social thought series
Critical social thought.
Subjects:
ISBN:
9780415955676
041595567X
9780415955669
0415955661
9780203883945
0203883942

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