Making Failure Pay

Author: Jill P. Koyama
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226451747

Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools

A little-discussed aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that requires failing schools to hire after-school tutoring companies-the largest of which are private, for-profit corporations-and to pay them with federal funds. Download Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Making Failure Pay takes a hard look at the implications of this new blurring of the boundaries between government, schools, and commerce in New York City, the country's largest school district.

As Jill P. Koyama explains in this revelatory book, NCLB-a federally legislated, state-regulated, district-administered, and school-applied policy-explicitly legitimizes giving private organizations significant roles in public education. Based on her three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Ko Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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