Children, Not Widgets: How to Fight and Fix the Willful Miseducation of Students and the Dismantling of Public Education, ISBN: 9781737738503
Children, Not Widgets: How to Fight and Fix the Willful Miseducation of Students and the Dismantling of Public Education
  • By (author) Longo-Schmid Jody

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Through the analysis of congressional debates and hearings, presidential speeches, public opinion polls, and eighty-three interviews with administrators and teachers, Children, Not Widgets shows how policymakers willfully unraveled many public services, like education. The framing of government as the problem, rather than the solution, and citizens as consumers, rather than community members, justified allotting public resources to an unregulated private sector. Over time, the claim that markets would better achieve important social democratic ends-such as increased civic engagement and socio-economic integration-as economic growth trickled down in ways that would "lift all boats" created what some have referred to as a consumerocracy, where public services are evaluated based on how well they serve individual wants versus collective ends. The book elaborates on why the construction of education as a good that is produced by teachers and consumed by individuals-versus a good that is produced collectively for the benefit of society-jeopardizes the broader benefits provided through a strong system of public education, and how the resulting market-based reforms resulted in unequal, unproductive, and undemocratic outcomes. By juxtaposing policymakers' views with those of educators, the book maps a broad-based policy agenda that addresses the social, economic, and political contexts of schools-not just the behaviors of individual educators, parents, and students-to promote equity, foster the broader social democratic and transformative ends of public schools, and provide choice while still improving public education for all children.
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Book Details
Publisher:
Lightning Source Inc
Binding:
Hardcover
Date of Pub.:
May 23, 2022
Edition:
-
Language:
-
ISBN:
9781737738503
Dimensions:
-
Weights:
1,065.94g
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