Making failure pay
Subtitle: for-profit tutoring, high-stakes testing, and public schools
By: Jill P. Koyama.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226451732; 9780226451749
Subjects: United States; School improvement programs -- Government policy -- United States; Educational accountability -- United States; Privatization in education -- United States; Education -- Standards -- United States; Education and state -- United States; Public schools -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Engaging failure : probing the problematics and politics of policy; title: Framing failure : interrogating policy studies, policy theory, and NCLB; title: Supplementing failure : providing supplemental educational services; title: Accentuating failure : emphasizing the need for "help"; title: Neglecting failure : ignoring the need for "help"; title: Fabricating failure : making up the need for "help"; title: Abandoning failure : diffusing its impact.