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Obama, where Art Thou? Hoping for Change in U.S. Education Policy.
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In this article, the educational stance of Barack Obama by exploring the president's speeches and his personnel and policy choices is explored. But it is also questioned whether Obama's hopeful message about education will be fully realized, given the decisions the administration has made or said it will make.Abstract:
In this essay, Wayne Au carefully considers the educational stance of Barack Obama by exploring the president's speeches and his personnel and policy choices. Au considers the election of Obama as a moment of possibility for change in American education, but also questions whether Obama's hopeful message about education will be fully realized, given the decisions the administration has made or said it will make. Finally, he calls for individuals to build a movement that demands educational justice in order to achieve the vision of equitable education set forth by Obama.read more
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Teaching under the new Taylorism: high‐stakes testing and the standardization of the 21st century curriculum
TL;DR: The authors argue that public school teachers in the US are teaching under what might be considered the New Taylorism, where their labour is controlled vis-a-vis high-stakes testing and pre-packaged, corporate curricula aimed specifically at teaching to the tests.
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Hiding behind High-Stakes Testing: Meritocracy, Objectivity and Inequality in U.S. Education.
TL;DR: This article analyzed how high-stakes, standardised testing became the policy tool in the U.S. that it is today and discussed its role in advancing an ideology of meritocracy that fundamentally masks structural inequalities related to race and economic class.
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Coring Social Studies within Corporate Education Reform: The Common Core State Standards, Social Justice, and the Politics of Knowledge in U.S. Schools
TL;DR: The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been adopted in 45 U.S. states by a wide coalition that includes both major US political parties, the business elite, for-profit education corporations, cultural conservatives, and teachers' unions.
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Preparing Quality Teachers: Making Learning Visible.
TL;DR: The authors provides a roadmap used by one large Faculty of Education in Queensland for reforming and reconceptualising the curriculum for a 4-year undergraduate program, in response to new demands from government and professional bodies.
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Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces That Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools
TL;DR: Callahan's study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures.
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Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity - Theory, Research and Critique
David J. Lee,Basil Bernstein +1 more
TL;DR: Part 1 Towards a Revised Theory of Pedagogy: Studies in Recontextualizing and Bernstein Interviewed.
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Pedagogy, symbolic control, and identity : theory, research, critique
TL;DR: In this article, a revised theory of pedagogy is proposed, with a focus on the separation of knowledge from the teacher and the learner, and the use of pedagogic codes and their modalities of practice.
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Class Strategies and the Education Market: The Middle Classes and Social Advantage
TL;DR: Class Strategies and the Education Market as mentioned in this paper examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education, identifying key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children.
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The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the real problems of American education and the fundamental principles of school improvement. But they focus on the improvement of education in a different way from the traditional one.