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Title The Gates Foundation and the future of US "public" schools / edited by Philip E. Kovacs
Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages)
Series Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism ; 5
Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism ; 5.
Contents From Carnegie to Gates : the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the venture philanthropy agenda for public education / Kenneth J. Saltman -- Power philanthropy : taking the public out of public education / Michael Klonsky -- The Gates Foundation's interventions into education, health, and food policies : -- Technology, power, and the privatization of political problems / David Hursh -- Marketing new schools for a new century : an examination of neoliberal school reform in New York City / Jessica Shiller -- Corporatism, KIPP, and cultural eugenics / Jim Horn -- Disabusing small-schools reformism : an alternative outlook on scaling up and down / Aimee Howley and Craig B. Howley -- Governing identity through neoliberal education initiatives : "get[ting] schooled" in the marketplace / Leslee Grey -- The Gates' Foundation and the future of U.S. public education : a call for scholars to counter misinformation campaigns / Philip E. Kovacs and H.K. Christie -- The giving business : venture philanthropy and the NewSchools venture fund / Jim Horn and Ken Libby -- Dear Bill: "grokking" education / Patti Lather -- An open letter to Bill Gates, Jr. (with a message to my colleagues) / David Gabbard -- Why current education reform efforts will fail / Marion Brady
Summary What are the implications when the educational policy and priority of public schools are concentrated in ways that foster de-unionization and teacher de-skilling while homogenizing school models and curriculum? This volume addresses this crucial, unanswered question while investigating the impact of the Gates Foundation on education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
SUBJECT Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fast
Subject Educational change -- United States
Public schools -- United States
Endowments -- United States
EDUCATION -- History.
Educational change
Endowments
Public schools
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Kovacs, Philip E
ISBN 9780203834947
0203834941