The Origins of the Common Core

Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.

"This timely book goes beyond the tired debates about the Common Core State Standards and asks instead: How did we get here, with self-appointed "reformers" casting public schools as the enemy, and unproven market models for education as the answer? This comprehensively documented treatment of that question proves that Deborah Duncan Owens is a voice to be reckoned with in education policy debates." - Christopher Lubienski, Professor of Education Policy, University of Illinois, USA; Sir Walter Murdoch Visiting Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Australia; and author of The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools (2014)

"Deborah Owens offers a detailed probe of the corporate-political alliances that cross party lines to push radical ventures traveling as education reform. She provides a needed history of what is really behind the Common Core, the curriculum and testing it requires, and why anyone who supports the survival of local public schools should care." - Susan Ohanian, Fellow, National Education Policy Center

Autorentext
Thomas J. Fiala, Arkansas State University, USA

Inhalt

1. The Nation Was at Risk and the Public Schools Did It 2. Public Schools: Conservative Coalescence and the Socialist Threat 3. Friedmanomics, School Vouchers and Choice 4. Corporate Superstars and an Inconvenient Truth 5. Public Schools and a Third Way of Governing 6. NCLB and the Texas Tall Tale 7. Education Reform and the Deep State: An Alternate Universe 8. The CCSS: Systemic Education Reform Writ Large 9. CCSS: The Gorilla in the Room for Free Market Education Reform