The New servants of power: a critique of the 1980s school reform movement

Abstract

Foreword by Maxine Greene Preface An Introductory Overview of the 1980s School Reform Debate Pentagon vs. Multinational Capitalism: Political Economy of the 1980s School Reform Movement by Christine M. Shea A Critique of the Concept of Work in the School Reform Literature A Critique of the Concept of Work and Education in the School Reform Reports by Don T. Martin State's Stake in Educational Reform by Edward H. Berman Where Computers Are Taking Us in the Educational Field by Ernest Kahane and Andrew D. Oram Corporate Community on the Ideal Business-School Alliance: An Historical and Ethical Critique by Peter Sola Educational Reform and The New Equity Bootstrap Ideology of Educational Reform: What the Recent Reports Say about the Current and Future Status of Blacks in Higher Education? by Beverly M. Gordon More of the Same: Reforms of American Public Schooling and the Minority Language Student by Timothy G. Reagan Eighties Image of Girls and Women in the Educational Reform Literature: A Review of the Issues by Kathryn M. Borman and Patricia O'Reilly New Equity: Competing Visions by William T. Pink School Reform Proposals for The New Civic Education Reform and the Quest for a Unified Society: A Critique of R. Freeman Butts's Agenda for Civic Learning by Stuart A. McAninch An Evaluation of the Aims and Curriculum Proposals in Sizer's Horace's Compromise by John Martin Rich and Joseph L. DeVitis Is Continuing Education Anything More than a Yuppie Phenomenon? by Paul C. Violas Teachers, Their World, and Their Work: A Review of the Idea of Professional Excellence in School Reform Reports by Richard J. Altenbaugh Bibliography Index