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Authors

Alice Ginsberg

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

There isn’t much room for dissenters in public education today – whether they are respectful or not. Playing and/or living by the rules has become shorthand for a philosophy of school reform that has but one major goal: raising standardized test scores. Embarrassed by what Obama has called in a recent State of the Union Address this “Sputnik moment” (Obama, 2011) -- where American schools and students are ranking far below other countries – the language of school reform has become consistently sterner and less tolerant of contrasting viewpoints. As Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been quoted:

The path to success has never been clearer. The educational reform movement is not a table where we all sit around and talk. It’s a train that is leaving the station, gaining speed, momentum and direction. It is time for everyone, everywhere to get on board. (Duncan, 2009)

Genre/Form

articles

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Educational leadership--United States--History; School management and organization--United States--History; Schools--United States--History; Democracy and education--United States

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

Chaltain, Sam

Geographic Coverage

United States

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

Type

Text

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Education Commons

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