Opis: Making Failure Pay - Jill Peterson Koyama, J Koyama

A little-discussed aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that requires failing schools to hire after-school tutoring companies - the largest of which are private, for-profit corporations - and to pay them with federal funds. "Making Failure Pay" takes a hard look at the implications of this new blurring of the boundaries between government, schools, and commerce in New York City, the country's largest school district. As Jill P. Koyama explains in this revelatory book, NCLB - a federally legislated, state-regulated, district-administered, and school-applied policy - explicitly legitimizes giving private organizations significant roles in public education. Based on her three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Koyama finds that the results are political and problematic - and highly profitable. Bringing to light these unproven, unregulated private companies' almost invisible partnership with the government, "Making Failure Pay" lays bare the unintended consequences of federal efforts to eliminate school failure - not the least of which is more failure. "This is a rare and powerful take on the role and work of supplementary educational services. In investigating these services, Koyama has staked out a whole new domain for closer inquiry, successfully convincing us that these services deserve scrutiny and often perpetuate failure. Making Failure Pay should be shared and should inform future research and policy making." - Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln"

Szczegóły: Making Failure Pay - Jill Peterson Koyama, J Koyama

Tytuł: Making Failure Pay
Autor: Jill Peterson Koyama, J Koyama
Producent: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226451732
Rok produkcji: 2010
Ilość stron: 192
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.39 kg

Recenzje: Making Failure Pay - Jill Peterson Koyama, J Koyama