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Obama's Dilemma: Postpartisan Politics and the Crisis of American Education
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Giroux as discussed by the authors argues that education must be reconceived as a tool for instituting the democratic values and social consciousness required for broad social change, and questions the extent to which Obama's "postpartisan" political approach will move our society away from a preoccupation with markets and toward a greater sense of civic responsibility.Abstract:
In this essay, Henry Giroux frames the election of Barack Obama as an opportunity to shed the outdated neoliberal perspectives of previous presidential administrations and to recreate democracy and education for this new age. He argues that education must be reconceived as a tool for instituting the democratic values and social consciousness required for broad social change, and he questions the extent to which Obama's "postpartisan" political approach will move our society away from a preoccupation with markets and toward a greater sense of civic responsibility. Critiquing current approaches to education reform, Giroux identifies an inherent conflict between Obama's professed commitment to instating democratic equality and his appointment of Arne Duncan as secretary of education.read more
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Mapping the terrain: Teach For America, charter school reform, and corporate sponsorship
TL;DR: The authors used policy network analysis to create a visual representation of Teach For America (TFA) key role in developing and connecting personnel, political support, and financial backing for charter reform and examined how the networks unfold at a local level by zooming in on a case study of New Orleans.
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Civic Returns to Higher Education: A Note on Heterogeneous Effects
TL;DR: Evidence for significant effect heterogeneity is found: civic returns to college are greatest among individuals who have a low likelihood for college completion, and returns decrease as the propensity for college increases.
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Market-Driven Education Reform and the Racial Politics of Advocacy
TL;DR: The authors examines commonsense understandings in education reform, which are supported by assertions that market-based schooling options are superior for children of color, and argues that a primary reason for the popularity of such reforms is an underexamined advocacy coalition, formed nominally around school choice, while also encompassing several other entrepreneurial educational reforms.
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Values Underpinning STEM Education in the USA: An Analysis of the Next Generation Science Standards
Darren Hoeg,John Lawrence Bencze +1 more
TL;DR: The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were designed to address poor science and math performance in United States schools by inculcating globally competitive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics literacies relevant to participation in future society as mentioned in this paper.
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Falling through the Cracks: Black Girls and Education.
TL;DR: The needs of Black girls are often overlooked by teachers, administrators, and policy makers as discussed by the authors, which contributes to a lack of educational programming and policies that address the impact of the intersection of racism and sexism on the educational experiences of black girls, with some attention to the achievement gap.
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Foucault, governmentality, and critique
TL;DR: In this paper, Foucault argues that it is possible to quote concepts, texts and phrases from Marx without feeling obliged to add the authenticating label of a footnote with a laudatory phrase to accompany the quotation.
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University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
TL;DR: Giroux's analysis is profound and unsparing, but his book concludes with an imaginative strategy to transform the university into a truly democratic institution as mentioned in this paper, which is the goal of our work.
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Governing through Crime
TL;DR: The impulse to power that characterizes established governments has manifested in a complex, entrenched, and uncontrolled pattern in the United States, of governing through crime as discussed by the authors, which has fundamentally altered American democracy, forging profound changes in the institutions of democracy: legislative, executive, and judicial.