Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools
Dec 2015 · Routledge
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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.
About the author
Kenneth J. Saltman teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He is the author most recently of "The Gift of Education: Venture Philanthropy and Public Education" (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), which was awarded a 2011 American Educational Studies Critics Choice Book Award, "The Failure of Corporate School Reform" (Paradigm Publishers 2012), "Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools" (Paradigm Publishers 2007), which was awarded a 2008 American Educational Studies Critics Choice Book Award, and "The Edison Schools" (Routledge 2005). His recent edited collections include "Education as Enforcement: the Militarization and Corporatization of Schools 2nd Edition", with David Gabbard (Routledge 2010), "Schooling and the Politics of Disaster (Routledge 2007)", and "The Critical Middle School Reader", with Enora Brown (Routledge 2005). He received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2006 on Globalization and Culture and is a fellow of the National Education Policy Center.
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