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How did a movement so contentious as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) become public education policy throughout the United States? Deborah Duncan Owens provides an insightful historical analysis of the CCSS, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the interests of the right, the left, and corporate America in systemically reforming education based on free market principles. Through an in-depth tour of education policies and movements over thirty-five years, Owens clearly identifies the advocates, politicians, authors, and thinkers who paved the way for the dominant way of thinking about public education in the United States today.
The Origins of the Common Core How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy
by Owens, Deborah Duncan; Fiala, Thomas J.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2015-01-22
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Author Biography
Deborah Duncan Owens is Associate Professor of Literacy Education at Elmira College, USA. A former public school teacher, Owens focuses her research on education policy and, in particular, on the impact of poverty and other social factors on public schools.
Table of Contents
1.The Nation Was at Risk and the Public Schools Did It
2.Public Schools: Conservative Coalescence and the Socialist Threat
3.Friedmanomics, School Vouchers and Choice
4.Corporate Superstars and an Inconvenient Truth
5.Public Schools and a Third Way of Governing
6.NCLB and the Texas Tall Tale
7.Education Reform and the Deep State: An Alternate Universe
8.The CCSS: Systemic Education Reform Writ Large
9.CCSS: The Gorilla in the Room for Free Market Education Reform
2.Public Schools: Conservative Coalescence and the Socialist Threat
3.Friedmanomics, School Vouchers and Choice
4.Corporate Superstars and an Inconvenient Truth
5.Public Schools and a Third Way of Governing
6.NCLB and the Texas Tall Tale
7.Education Reform and the Deep State: An Alternate Universe
8.The CCSS: Systemic Education Reform Writ Large
9.CCSS: The Gorilla in the Room for Free Market Education Reform
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