What Is Authentic Educational Reform?: Pushing Against the Compassionate Conservative Agenda
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- What is Authentic Educational Reform? -- I Compassionate Conservatism: Current Myths of Educational Reform -- 1 No Child Left Behind as Political Fraud -- 2 The Sociopolitical Context of No Child Left behind: Hard Times and Courageous Responses -- II The Impact of Compassionate Conservatism on Educational Policies and Practices -- 3 The Privatization of America's Schools -- 4 High-Stakes Testing and No Child Left behind (NCLB): Conceptual and Empirical Considerations -- 5 Educational Reform and the Child with Disabilities -- III Reports from the Field: The Impact of Compassionate Conservatism on Teaching and Learning -- 6 Leaving Sanity behind: How Scientific are the Scientific Phonics Programs? -- 7 "I Thought I Was a Professional": Teachers' and Parents' Reactions to NCLB in New York City -- 8 Whatever Happened to the Rest of the Curriculum? -- 9 The Campaign for Fiscal Equity -- 10 The Impact of Community on Educational Reform -- 11 Equity in the Science Classroom -- IV What Is to Be Done? -- 12 Educational Reform -- 13 In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act -- Finding the Missing Child in NCLB: Pushing against the Compassionate Conservative Agenda -- Index