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- 9780226451732
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226451739
ISBN-13
9780226451732
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102830691
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Publication Name
Making Failure Pay : For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Educational Policy & Reform / General, Administration / General, Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, General, Aims & Objectives
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Education
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-047691
Reviews
"A riveting and highly disturbing account of the unforeseen effects of NCLB in the New York City Public Schools, Making Failure Pay demonstrates the full force of new anthropological approaches to the examination of educational policy. It exposes NCLB's hidden public-private 'liaisons' that enable companies to profit from the provision of substandard and poorly regulated services that perpetuate student failure. Conceptually sophisticated and lucidly written, this book is indispensible reading for educational policymakers, policy researchers, and all who have a stake in U.S. urban schools."Peter Demerath, University of Minnesota, 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 they deserve scrutiny and often perpetuate failure. Making Failure Pay should be shared and should inform future research and policy making., "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 they 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, "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 they 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, A riveting and highly disturbing account of the unforeseen effects of NCLB in the New York City Public Schools, Making Failure Pay demonstrates the full force of new anthropological approaches to the examination of educational policy. It exposes NCLB's hidden public-private 'liaisons' that enable companies to profit from the provision of substandard and poorly regulated services that perpetuate student failure. Conceptually sophisticated and lucidly written, this book is indispensible reading for educational policymakers, policy researchers, and all who have a stake in U.S. urban schools., While the book is engaging, its results are highly disturbing, as it reveals the degree to which SES providers are unaccountable and ineffective. . . . The book is unique due to the subject of investigation, and because it studies education policy by focusing on studying how legal requirements are enacted and negotiated by actors at the level of the school and the school district. It is a must read for both general audiences and students of education policy., "While the book is engaging, its results are highly disturbing, as it reveals the degree to which SES providers are unaccountable and ineffective. . . . The book is unique due to the subject of investigation, and because it studies education policy by focusing on studying how legal requirements are enacted and negotiated by actors at the level of the school and the school district. It is a must read for both general audiences and students of education policy."- Choice, "A riveting and highly disturbing account of the unforeseen effects of NCLB in the New York City Public Schools,Making Failure Paydemonstrates the full force of new anthropological approaches to the examination of educational policy. It exposes NCLB's hidden public-private 'liaisons' that enable companies to profit from the provision of substandard and poorly regulated services that perpetuate student failure. Conceptually sophisticated and lucidly written, this book is indispensible reading for educational policymakers, policy researchers, and all who have a stake in U.S. urban schools."-Peter Demerath, University of Minnesota
Dewey Edition
2
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
379.1
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 1 Engaging Failure Probing the Problematics and Politics of Policy 2 Framing Failure Interrogating Policy Studies, Policy Theory, and NCLB 3 Supplementing Failure Providing Supplemental Educational Services 4 Accentuating Failure Emphasizing the Need for "Help" 5 Neglecting Failure Ignoring the Need for "Help" 6 Fabricating Failure Making Up the Need for "Help" 7 Abandoning Failure Diffusing Its Impact Notes References Index
Synopsis
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, 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., 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, 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.
LC Classification Number
LB2822.82.K69 2010
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