High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform

by Lipman,Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780415935074
• ISBN10: 0415935075
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-16
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

What are the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in a political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class?High StakesEducationprovides a cogent and critical examination of such questions, investigating concretely the political economy of neoliberal education reforms and the cultural politics of race. Using Chicago--a standard bearer for high stakes testing and centralized regulation of schools--as a case study, noted scholar Pauline Lipman argues there is a strategic relationship between these policies and processes of economic restructuring, racialized social control, and globalization.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Series Editor's Preface	ix
Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Urban Education	1	(22)
Chicago School Reform and Its Political, Economic, and Cultural Context	23	(18)
Accountability, Social Differentiation, and Racialized Social Control	41	(30)
``Like a Hammer Just Knocking Them Down''	71	(34)
Regulating African American Schools
The Policies and Politics of Cultural Assimilation Coauthored with Eric Gutstein	105	(34)
``It's Us versus the Board---The Enemy''	139	(30)
Race, Class, and the Power to Oppose
Beyond Accountability	169	(24)
Toward Schools that Create New People for a New Way of Life
Methodological Appendix	193	(4)
Notes	197	(6)
References	203	(12)
Index	215