Title: Educating the "right" way : markets, standards, God, and inequality /
Authors: Apple, Michael W.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Education Political aspects United States; Conservatism United States
Abstract: This book provides a detailed and systematic critical analysis of the growing power of conservative movements in educational policy and practice. Since its publication, the worrisome trends it analyzes have worsened and have come into the very center of education in countries throughout the world. In this revised edition, noted scholar Michael Apple reflects on the new wave of conservative policies and reforms that have come to the forefront of education debates since the book was published--No Child Left Behind, the increase in homeschooling, and more recent debates on anti-evolutionism.
Contents: Markets, standards, God, and inequality -- Whose markets, whose knowledge? -- Producing inequalities : conservative modernization in policy and practice -- Who "no child left behind" leaves behind : the class and race realities of audit cultures -- Endangered Christianity -- God, morality, and markets -- Away with all teachers : the cultural politics of home schooling -- Doing the work of home schooling : gender, technology, and curriculum -- Righting wrongs and interrupting the right.