Chapter 17. Pushing Back: How an Environmental Charter School Resisted Test-Driven Pressures

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The Perils of Technocratic Educational Reform
5. Chapter 1. The Mismeasure of Teaching and Learning: How Contemporary School Reform Fails the Test 9
6. Chapter 2. Views from the Black of the Math Classroom 21
7. Chapter 3. Targeting Teachers 30
8. Chapter 4. Firing Line: The Grand Coalition Against Teachers 40
9. Chapter 5. The Bipartisan, and Unfounded, Assault on Teachers’ Unions 58
10. Chapter 6. Free-Market Think Tanks and the Marketing of Education Policy 67
11. Chapter 7. The Price of Human Capital: The Illusion of Equal Educational Opportunity 75
12. Chapter 8. Educational Movements, Not Market Moments 84
13. Part II. Education, Race, and Poverty
14. Chapter 9. Public Education as Welfare 93
15. Chapter 10. In Search of Equality in School Finance Reform 102
16. Chapter 11. “I Want the White People Here!”: The Dark Side of an Urban School Renaissance 112
17. Chapter 12. The Rhetoric of Choice: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools 122
18. Chapter 13. Criminalizing Kids: The Overlooked Reason for Failing Schools 131
19. Part III. Alternatives to Technocratic Reform
20. Chapter 14. Abandoning the Higher Purposes of Public Schools 143
21. Chapter 15. Equity-Minded Instructional Leadership: Turning Up the Volume for English Learners 148
22. Chapter 16. Professional Unionism: Redefining the Role of Teachers and Their Unions in Reform Efforts 158
23. Chapter 17. Pushing Back: How an Environmental Charter School Resisted Test-Driven Pressures 168
24. Chapter 18. The Achievement Gap and the Schools We Need: Creating the Conditions Where Race and Class No Longer Predict Student Achievement 180
25. Chapter 19. ¡Ya Basta! Challenging Restrictions on English-Language Learners 194
26. Chapter 20. Sharing Responsibility: A Case for Real Parent- School Partnerships 201
27. Chapter 21. Calling the Shots in Public Education: Parents, Politicians, and Educators Clash 207
28. Part IV. Conclusions
29. Chapter 22. What Is Education Reform? 221
30. Contributors 241
31. Acknowledgments 247