ASIN: B00FD8P284
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 64
The eBook is written in the context of an assault on the profession of teaching and teacher education. With support from a relatively small number of think tanks, philanthropic (family) foundations, corporations and few very wealthy individuals, American education is being privatized at the peril of participatory democracy and public education. False claims have been made about the quality of public education, the academic performance of students (not just in America, but in just about every nation in the world), and the purpose of schooling in a democratic society. It's in the best interests of corporate and private philanthropists to convince American citizens that their public education is in shambles, when it really isn't. It also is convenient to use international test score results as if they were reliable measures of student learning, and then to use them to rank order the ...
