Marketing fear in America's public schools
Subtitle: the real war on literacy
By: edited by Leslie Poynor and Paula Wolfe.
Contributors: Poynor, Leslie.; Wolfe, Paula M.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Education and state -- United States; Education -- Political aspects -- United States; Conservatism -- United States; Mass media and education -- United States
Description: "Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools is an examination of the real world consequences of the political pressures and influences on teachers today. In particular, it looks at how the political actions of the conservative right disempower and control teachers, school districts, parents, and children through an atmosphere of fear used as a strategy to ensure that schools follow the conservative political agenda supporting and imposing mandates such as increased accountability, high stakes testing, and direct intense direct-instruction phonics programs. The book offers a unique look not only at what the conservative factions are doing but why." "Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools is important reading for teachers; teacher educators; education students; school administrators and other education professionals; researchers concerned with literacy, critical theory, pedagogy, and educational policy; and parents and community activists concerned with the politics of schooling and school reform. It will serve well as a text in a range of courses across the field of education."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Paula Wolfe and Leslie Poynor; title: Relatively speaking: McCarthyism and teacher-resisters / Carole Edelsky; title: The push of the pendulum / Bess Altwerger; title: Who gets to play? How and why reading researchers were left out of the No Child Left Behind Act / Sharon Matthews; title: Warning: current federal education policy may be hazardous to your health / Steve Strauss; title: Making whole language disappear: how the National Reading Panel worked its magic / Joanne Yatvin; title: Phonics, literalism, and futuristic fiction: religious fundamentalism and education policy / Ellen Brinkley and Constance Weaver; title: Not in the script: the missing discourses of parents, students, and teachers about success for all / Kyle D. Shanton and Teresa C. Valenzuela; title: Unelected policymakers: conservative think tanks and education / Eric Haas; title: Bilinguaphobia in the new millennium / Chris Faltis and Cathy Coulter; title: Cracks in the wall? Initiating actions against federal policy / Richard J. Meyer ... [et al.]; title: Where do we go from here? / Leslie Poynor and Paula Wolfe.