Publicization - Jonathan Gyurko

Publicization

How Public and Private Interests Can Reinvent Education for the Common Good

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2024
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6942-3 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
How public are America’s public schools? Gyurko offers a fresh look at the ‘publicness’ of American education through historical accounts, scholarly research, first-hand reporting, and political analyses.
How public are America’s public schools? They may be tax funded and free, but the effects of market-based policies, exclusionary governance, insufficient funding, and structural inequities impair schools’ ability to prepare future citizens, workers, neighbors, and stewards of the planet. Gyurko offers a fresh look at the “publicness” of American education through historical accounts, scholarly research, first-hand reporting, and political analyses. Chapters on funding, governance, standards, accountability, and equity show what must be done to better identify and strengthen the shared aims of public schools. Novel insights explain how even controversial topics like charter schools, testing, teacher tenure, and unions can be part of a broad “Publicization Project.” Champions of public education will find a compelling vision and achievable roadmap that moves the country beyond decades of privatization. Publicization is an essential introduction to major debates of past years with a hopeful vision of what it means to be an educated American.


Book Features:




Speaks directly to political controversies affecting education including school choice, book banning, the “reading wars,” board elections, critical race theory, and teacher unions.
Offers first-hand, never-before-reported accounts of high-profile efforts involving prominent political players including AFT president Randi Weingarten, former U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan, former NYC mayors Michael R. Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio and schools chancellor Joel I. Klein, Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, former PBS correspondent John Merrow, KIPP cofounder David Levin, late philanthropist Eli Broad, small schools founder Deborah Meier, and historian and activist Diane Ravitch.
Provides pragmatic recommendations that cross political divides,including a fresh look at charter schools, the role of unions and collective bargaining, parent involvement in school decision-making, standardized testing, and equity-advancing reforms.
Gathers the history of education ideas, thinkers, and past reforms to provide new generations of educators with a cogent summary of what has come before to inform what comes next.

Jonathan Gyurko is a nationally recognized education leader. He was an official at the NYC Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers, and he served on the board of Dream Charter Schools. Gyurko was the inaugural Harber Fellow in Educational Innovation at Wesleyan University and is president and cofounder of the Association of College and University Educators.

Contents


Acknowledgments  xi


Introduction  1

Privatization’s Antidote: Publicization  3

The Public Good  4

Criteria of a “Public” Education  5

A Political Project  6

What Makes a School “Public”? Some Personal Perspectives  9

A Primer, a Memoir, and a Playbook  11


The Exclusion Test  13


Part I: Criteria


1.  Funding  19

Private Interests Remain Entrenched  21

The Strengths and Limits of Judicial Remedies  23

A Question of Fairness  28


2.  Facts and Beliefs  29

School Choice, Private Beliefs, and the Risk to Public Goods  30

The State’s Disreputable History in “Making” Americans  31

The Risk of “Working It Out at the Polls”  33

Facts as a Measure of a School’s Publicness  34


3.  Governance  37

A Framework for Democratic Education  38

Getting Politics Out of Education  41

Private Interests Fill the Void  42

“Exit” Is Not “Voice”  45

Putting Politics Back Into Education  46

Rules of the Road  48

Following the Rules of the Democratic “Game,” Over and Over  49

Trust Over Time Versus Winner-Takes-All  51

Pressure Politics: How Do We Know?  54


4.  Standards and Testing  57

A Nation at Risk and the Rise of Standards  57

Taxes Versus Accountability  59

Economics Invades Education  61

A Reformer’s Connecticut Adventure  64

The Wrong Lesson to Draw From a Modest Victory  66


5.  Accountability  67

The Profession’s Obligations  69

Preprofessional Accountability  73

The Polity’s Responsibilities  75

Employment Accountability  76

School-Based Commitments  79

Student Performance  83

How Will You Know, John?  86


6.  Equity  87

Defining Equity  88

Structural Inequity From “The Cult of Efficiency”: The Industrial Paradigm of Schooling  89

A Brief History of Progressive Alternatives to the Industrial Paradigm  93

The Industrial Paradigm Rewrapped: The “Cult of Innovation”  94

For Consideration: An Intellectual-Emotional Paradigm  94

Intellectual Capacities  95

Emotional Capacities  97

The Intrinsic Equity of an Intellectual-Emotional Paradigm  100

A Political, Not an Educational, Problem  101


Part II: Cases


7.  Charter Schools  107

The Publicness of Charter School Funding  108

The Publicness of Charter School Curriculum  110

The Charter School “Compact” and Its Complicity in the Industrial Paradigm  112

Competition and the Conservative Agenda  114

Charter Schools and the Teacher Unions  115

Making Charter Schools More Public  117

“Invisible” Versus “Helping” Hands: Community-Based Charter Schools  118

Charter Schools and the Progressive Agenda  121

Finding Common Ground in the Common Good  131


8.  Teacher Unions  132

Education Portfolios and Competition at the Apex of Education Policy  132

Out-Reforming the Reformers: The United Federation of Teachers  134

The Creative Entanglements of Union-Run Charter Schools  138

A Mixed Result  140

A Crash Course in Labor History, Politics, and Practice  141

Mission Accomplished? The Role of Teacher Unions in Making Schools More Public  142

Next-Stage Teacher Unionism  157


9.  Conclusion  161

What If It Comes Out “Wrong”?  163

Making a Movement  165


Endnotes  167


Index  201


About the Author  212

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 229 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10 0-8077-6942-8 / 0807769428
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-6942-3 / 9780807769423
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