Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips: The Fate Of Public Education In America (PB)
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Author(s)Gene V Glass
PublisherIAP - Information Age Publishing
ISBN / ASIN1593118929
ISBN-139781593118921
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank957,419
CategoryEducation
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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"We shape our tools and then they shape us." With these words, Kenneth Boulding captured one of the great truths of the modern world. In Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips, Gene V Glass analyzes how a few key technological inventions changed culture in America and how public education has changed as a result. Driving these changes are material self-interest and the desire for comfort and security, both of which have transformed American culture into a hyper-consuming, xenophobic society that is systematically degrading public education. Glass shows how the central education policy debates at the start of the 21st century (vouchers, charter schools, tax credits, high-stakes testing, bilingual education) are actually about two underlying issues: how can the costs of public education be cut, and how can the education of the White middle-class be "quasi-privatized" at public expense? Working from the demographic realities of the past thirty years, he projects a challenging and disturbing future for public education in America. Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips is attracting the attention of the nation's foremost education scholars.
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