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Title:
The Gates Foundation and the future of US "public" schools / edited by Philip E. Kovacs.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xiv, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Educational change--United States.
Public schools--United States.
Endowments--United States.
Other Authors:
Kovacs, Philip E.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From Carnegie to Gates : the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the venture philanthropy agenda for public education / Kenneth J. Saltman -- Power philanthropy : taking the public out of public education / Michael Klonsky -- The Gates Foundation's interventions into education, health, and food policies : -- Technology, power, and the privatization of political problems / David Hursh -- Marketing new schools for a new century : an examination of neoliberal school reform in New York City / Jessica Shiller -- Corporatism, KIPP, and cultural eugenics / Jim Horn -- Disabusing small-schools reformism : an alternative outlook on scaling up and down / Aimee Howley and Craig B. Howley -- Governing identity through neoliberal education initiatives : "get[ting] schooled" in the marketplace / Leslee Grey -- The Gates' Foundation and the future of U.S. public education : a call for scholars to counter misinformation campaigns / Philip E. Kovacs and H.K. Christie -- The giving business : venture philanthropy and the NewSchools venture fund / Jim Horn and Ken Libby -- Dear Bill: "grokking" education / Patti Lather -- An open letter to Bill Gates, Jr. (with a message to my colleagues) / David Gabbard -- Why current education reform efforts will fail / Marion Brady.
Series:
Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism ; 5
ISBN:
0415873347
9780415873345
OCLC:
(OCoLC)643082171
LCCN:
2010025198
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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