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ERIC Number: EJ1038021
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 11
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1071-4413
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Neoliberalism and Corporate School Reform: "Failure" and "Creative Destruction"
Saltman, Kenneth J.
Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, v36 n4 p249-259 2014
In the United States, corporate school reform or neoliberal educational restructuring has overtaken educational policy, practice, curriculum, and nearly all aspects of educational reform. Although this movement began on the political right, the corporate school model has been heralded across the political spectrum and is aggressively embraced now by both major parties. Corporate school reformers champion private sector approaches to reform, including especially, privatization, deregulation, and the importation of terms and assumptions from business, while they imagine public schools as private businesses, districts as markets, students as consumers, and knowledge as product. The traditional public school system suffered from funding inequality, racial segregation, and anti-intellectual, anti-critical approaches to schooling--all problems that neoliberal school restructuring worsens. However, a successful struggle for integration, equality of resources, and critical intellectual approaches to schooling has been waged and continues to be pursued. Efforts to challenge the new two-tiered system cannot be restricted to schooling but must be linked to a broader social movement for democratic control and against corporate control over the economy, the political system, and the culture. The goal should not be to replicate a more lucrative system of dual education--the rich part still public and the poor part privatized. The goal must be ending the dual education system. The author presents his opinion on neoliberalism and corporate school reform, concluding with some necessary steps to accomplish this goal.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: No Child Left Behind Act 2001; Race to the Top
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