Chapter Eight. Media Capture and the Corporate Education- Reform Philanthropies

Media Capture ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Andrea Gabor
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
Media Capture

A Teachers Union Against Itself: Organized Labor and the Crisis at City College of San Francisco

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Rick Baum
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Teachers Union ◽  
City College ◽  
Budget Crisis

How did a community college that had managed to serve and retain most of its student population and remain fiscally sound amid a recession and a budget crisis become the target of condemnation by accrediting authorities? The answer involves a disastrous collision of corporate education reform, administrative arrogance, and timid, undemocratic union leadership.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

scholarly journals Performance Measures for Teachers and Teacher Education: Corporate Education Reform Opens the Door to New Legal Issues

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Pullin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
Breach Of Contract ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Evaluation Systems

Recent efforts to change the teaching profession and teacher preparation include a number of innovations to use portfolio assessment, value added measures (VAM), accountability metrics and other corporate education reform ideas.  These approaches may provoke considerable potential legal consequences. Traditional constitutional and civil rights issues will continue to be important considerations. In addition, because education is increasingly seen as a consumer product, new types of legal issues are arising from the way evidence about performance is gathered and used and about the privacy of data. Legal claims more familiar to a business context are being asserted and can be expected to increase. Whistle-blower claims concerning fraud in government-funded programs have been filed, as well as claims of breach of contract and defective products. Finally, criminal prosecutions are being utilized to address systemic cheating in evaluation systems.

What Happened at CCSF?

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Allan Fisher ◽  
Wynd Kaufmyn ◽  
Marcy Rein ◽  
Rick Baum
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Teachers Union ◽  
City College ◽  
Union Democracy

Did the accreditation crisis and subsequent labor struggle at City College of San Francisco represent a failure of union democracy, or a hard-won victory against corporate education reform? Rick Baum's recent article on this question, "A Teachers Union Against Itself" (published the April 2017 issue of Monthly Review) prompted a lively response from AFT local 2121 members and supporters. This correspondence article collects their letters, as well as a reply by Baum.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

The Politics of Racial Symbolism: Deval Patrick and His Discourse of Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1061-1074
Author(s):  
Lawrence Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Public Education Reform ◽  
Racial Domination ◽  
Racial Progress

This article assesses the link between racial symbolism and corporate education reform through the political discourse of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick between 2007 and 2010. Where many observers find the representation of high profile Black elected officials as an attenuation of racial domination, I argue it is the symbolism of racial progress that is utilized to advance corporate interests in public education reform. Patrick’s discourse supports neoliberal education reform as a solution to racialized issues of poverty, public safety, and mass incarceration. Through Patrick’s personal narratives he affirms a pro-blackness that acknowledges the pervasiveness of racial disparities in which he offers public education reform as an alternative in contrast to more punitive discourses of law and order.

scholarly journals Segregation and inequality in Chicago Public Schools, transformed and intensified under corporate education reform

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavlyn Jankov ◽  
Carol Caref
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Black Teachers ◽  
Chicago Public Schools ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
Black Schools ◽  
School Closures

During the period of 1981 to 2015, the total population of Black students in CPS plummeted from close to 240,000, 60% of all CPS students, to 156,000 or 39% of CPS. This paper documents how despite their decreasing numbers and percentage in the system, the vast majority of Black students remained isolated in predominantly low-income Black schools that also became the target of destabilizing corporate reforms and experimentation. This study examines the historic and contemporary dual segregation of Black teachers and Black students in Chicago Public Schools, and how mass school closures, privatization, and corporate school reform have both transformed and deepened segregation and resource-inequity across Chicago's schools.

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