Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

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by Diane Ravitch


  3. Ibid.; “A Portrait of Segregation in New York City,” New York Times, May 11, 2012.

  4. Institute on Race and Poverty, Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Cities (University of Minnesota Law School, 2008); Institute on Race and Poverty, Update of “Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Cities” (University of Minnesota Law School, 2012).

  5. John Hechinger, “Segregated Charter Schools Evoke Separate but Equal Era in U.S.,” Bloomberg.com, December 22, 2011.

  6. Orfield, Kucsera, and Siegel-Hawley, E Pluribus … Separation, 7–8.

  7. Ibid., 8.

  8. Rucker C. Johnson, “Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments” (NBER working paper 16664, January 2011), http://www.nber.org/papers/w16664.

  9. Rucker C. Johnson, “The Grandchildren of Brown: The Long Legacy of School Desegregation,” http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ruckerj/RJabstract_BrownDeseg_Grandkids.pdf.

  10. David L. Kirp, “Making Schools Work,” New York Times, May 19, 2012.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Richard Rothstein and Mark Santow, “A Different Kind of Choice” (Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, 2012).

  CHAPTER 32 Privatization of Public Education Is Wrong

  1. Jamie Robert Vollmer, “The Blueberry Story: A Businessman Learns His Lesson,” Education Week, March 6, 2002.

  2. Steven Rattner, interview with Fareed Zakaria, CNN, July 22, 2012, http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/22/fzgps.01.html.

  3. Tim Holt, “Education and the Business Model,” http://holtthink.tumblr.com/post/25291144880/education-and-the-business-model.

  4. Richard A. Oppel Jr., “Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings,” New York Times, May 18, 2011; Sam Dolnick, “As Escapees Stream Out, a Penal Business Thrives,” New York Times, June 17, 2012; Julie Creswell and Reed Abelson, “A Giant Hospital Chain Is Blazing a Profit Trail,” New York Times, August 15, 2012.

  5. David M. Halbfinger, “Cost of Preschool Special Education Is Soaring,” New York Times, June 6, 2012. See also “Oversight for Preschool Special Education,” New York Times, July 16, 2012.

  6. “Course Choice Quality Control” (Louisiana Department of Education, 2012), http://boarddocs.com/la/bese/Board.nsf/files/92ETL277D2BF/$file/AG_3-2_Course_Choice_Attachment_B_Dec12.pdf; Valerie Strauss, “Louisiana Supreme Court Rules School Voucher Funding Unconstitutional,” Washington Post, May 7, 2013.

  7. Jessica Williams, “BESE Approves Online Providers Despite Judge Nixing Pay Plan,” Lens, December 4, 2012.

  8. Matthew Cunningham-Cook, “Why Do Some of America’s Wealthiest Individuals Have Fingers in Louisiana’s Education System?,” Nation, October 23, 2012.

  9. Motoko Rich, “Charter Schools Win Support in Georgia,” New York Times, November 7, 2012.

  10. Washington State, Public Disclosure Commission, http://www.pdc.wa.gov/MvcQuerySystem/CommitteeData/contributions?param=WUVTIFdDIDUwNw====&year=2012&type=initiative.

  11. Daniel Denvir, “Michelle Rhee’s Right Turn,” Salon.com, November 17, 2012.

  12. State Impact, “Idaho Voters Resoundingly Reject Propositions 1, 2, and 3,” http://stateimpact.npr.org/idaho/tag/propositions-1-2-3/; Andrew Crisp, “Luna Laws Award $180 Million Laptop Deal to HP,” Boise Weekly, October 23, 2012; Dan Popkey, “Tom Luna’s Education Reform Plan Was a Long Time in the Making,” Idaho Statesman, February 20, 2011.

  13. Santa Clara County Office of Education, “County Board Approves 20 More Rocketship Charters” (press release), http://www.sccoe.k12.ca.us/newsandfacts/newsreleases/2011-12/news121511.asp?CFID=15231363&CFTOKEN=34992529&jsessionid=843032e7a6176e9adf9a5b4a1758607767e2; Sharon Noguchi, “PAC Money Floods Local School Board Races,” http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_21896419/pac-money-floods-local-school-board-races; Sharon Noguchi, “Santa Clara County School Board: Mah Wins Seat; Song Beats Neighbors,” http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_21943699/santa-clara-county-school-board-has-two-seats.

  14. Howard Blume, “Big Money Doesn’t Buy Much in L.A. School Races,” Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2013.

  15. Jersey Jazzman, “Who Runs the Reformy Campaign Money Machine?” April 2, 2013, http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2013/04/who-runs-reformy-campaign-money-machine.html.

  CHAPTER 33 Conclusion: The Pattern on the Rug

  1. Http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/executive-summary.pdf.

  2. John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: Macmillan, 1916), 101.

  Index

  Abecedarian Project

  absenteeism, 10.1, 23.1, 31.1

  Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL)

  accountability, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 18.1, 20.1, 28.1, 28.2, 31.1, 32.1, 33.1

  online schools and, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3

  test-based, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 11.1, 14.1, 20.1, 21.1, 24.1, 28.1, 33.1, nts.1n

  achievement gap, 1.1, 4.1, 10.1, 15.1

  closing of, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 20.1, 21.1, 28.1, 28.2, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4

  income, 6.1, 6.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 17.1, 31.1, 31.2

  poverty effects and, 10.1, 23.1, 31.1, 31.2

  achievement levels, 5.1, 25.1, 25.2

  math, 5.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, app.1, app.2, app.3

  reading, 5.1, 5.2, app.4, app.5, app.6

  ACT, 28.1, 31.1

  Adams, John

  Addams, Jane

  Adelanto School District

  “advanced” level, 5.1, 5.2

  Advanced Placement courses, 4.1, 16.1

  Africa, 22.1, 22.2, 31.1

  African Americans, see blacks

  after-school programs, 1.1, 10.1, 16.1, 24.1, 27.1

  Agassi, Andre, 2.1, 16.1

  Agora school

  alcohol, 10.1, 27.1, 31.1

  ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 16.1, 32.1

  and charters

  parent trigger and

  virtual schools and, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2

  vouchers and

  Alexander, Karl L.

  Allgood, Whitney, 27.1, 27.2

  Alliance for Excellent Education

  Amazon.com, 3.1, 24.1, 32.1

  America 2000

  American Educational Research Association (AERA)

  American Enterprise Institute

  American Federation for Children

  American Federation of Teachers, 3.1, 16.1, nts.1n

  American Indians, 5.1, 5.2, 16.1, 31.1

  American Indians/Alaska Natives, 8.1, app.7, app.8, app.9, app.10

  American Institutes for Research (AIR), 20.1, 20.2

  American Library Association

  American Virtual Academy

  AmeriCorps

  Amplify division

  Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy

  Anschutz, Philip

  Anti-intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter)

  anti-progressives (“essentialists”)

  “apartheid schools,”

  Ariely, Dan

  Arizona, charter schools in, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  Arizona Republic, 16.1, 16.2

  arts education, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 28.1, 30.1, 31.1, 33.1

  in good education, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5

  Asian Americans, 9.1, 16.1, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3

  achievement gap and

  NAEP and, 4.1, 5.1

  Asian/Pacific Islanders, 8.1, 8.2, app.7, app.11, app.12, app.10

  Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

  Atlanta, Ga., 2.1, 15.1, 15.2

  Austin, Ben, 18.1, nts.1n

  Australia, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 16.1

  Austria, 10.1, 31.1

  autism, 16.1, 26.1

  automobile industry

  Baker, Bruce, 11.1, 16.1, nts.1n

  Baker, Keith

  Baltimore, Md., 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, nts.1n

  B
an Ki-moon

  Barton, Paul, 6.1, 25.1

  “basic” level, 5.1, 5.2

  Basis charter schools

  Bell, Terrel H.

  “below basic” level, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

  Bennett, Bill, 17.1, 17.2, nts.1n

  Bennett-Kew Elementary School

  Bezos family, 3.1, 32.1

  bilingual education

  Blackboard Jungle (film)

  blacks, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 31.1, 33.1

  achievement gap and, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 21.1, 23.1, 25.1, 28.1, 31.1, 31.2

  charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 31.1

  college education and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 21.1, 31.1, 31.2

  high school graduation rates and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 21.1, 31.1, 31.2, nts.1n

  international tests and

  NAEP and, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 15.1, 19.1, app.14, app.5, app.8, app.15, app.16

  poor, 3.1, 10.1, 15.1, 23.1, 27.1, 28.1, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2

  Rhee and, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3

  unemployment of

  vouchers and, 19.1, 19.2

  see also desegregation; segregation, racial

  “blended learning” model

  Block, Michael

  Block, Olga

  Bloomberg, Michael, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 25.1, 25.2, 30.1, 32.1, 32.2

  Bloomberg Businessweek

  Board of Education, Chicago, 20.1, 20.2

  Booker, Corey

  boot-camp culture

  Borsuk, Alan J.

  Boston Consulting Group

  Bowen, Stephen

  Bracey, Gerald, n

  Bradley Foundation

  brain development

  Brandenburg, G. F.

  Brennan, David, 16.1, 17.1

  Broad, Eli, 3.1, 32.1, 32.2

  Broad Foundation, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 33.1

  online education and

  Broad Superintendents Academy, 3.1, 14.1

  Brookings Institution

  Brooklyn Castle (film)

  Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School

  Brown, Jerry, n

  Brown v. Board of Education, 3.1, 6.1, 19.1, 19.2, 31.1, 33.1

  Budde, Ray, 2.1, 16.1, 26.1, 26.2

  budget cuts, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1, 24.1, 24.2

  class size and, 25.1, 25.2

  Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.

  Bush, George H. W. (Bush administration), 1.1, 2.1, 4.1

  Bush, George W. (Bush administration), itr.1, 4.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 31.1

  see also No Child Left Behind

  Bush, Jeb, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 10.1, 11.1

  online schools and, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4

  parent trigger and

  business, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 19.1, 32.1

  education compared with, 12.1, 26.1, 32.1

  see also entrepreneurs; specific businesses

  California, 3.1, 15.1, 25.1, 31.1, 32.1

  charter schools in, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 18.2, 32.1

  parent trigger and

  turnaround in

  California, University of (Los Angeles), Civil Rights Project of, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3

  California Charter School Association,310

  Canada, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2

  poverty in, 10.1, 10.2

  Canada, Geoffrey

  capital

  human

  “smart,”

  social

  Carroll County, Va.

  Carter, Jimmy

  Catholic schools, 16.1, 19.1, 33.1

  Celerity charter chain

  censorship

  Census Bureau, U.S.

  Center for Education Reform, 16.1, 19.1

  Center for Research on Education (CREDO)

  Centers for Disease Control

  Chance to Make History, A (Kopp), 10.1, 14.1

  character, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 28.1, 28.2, 33.1

  charter management organizations (CMOs)

  charter schools, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 20.1, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1, 33.2

  achievement gap and

  ALEC’s model law for, 16.1, 16.2

  chains of, 3.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 26.1, 26.2

  cost of, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  CREDO report on

  diversity of, 16.1, 16.2

  EMOs and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  enrollment disparities in, 4.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  expansion of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 18.1, 26.1, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 32.1

  for-profit, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 32.1, 32.2

  NCLB and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

  “no excuses” slogan of, 10.1, 16.1

  online, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 26.1, 26.2

  original idea for, 2.1, 16.1, 26.1

  parent trigger and

  as public schools

  segregation and, 31.1, 31.2

  TFA and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

  in Washington, D.C., 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 26.1

  working for all of

  Chavis, Ben

  cheating scandals, 2.1, 15.1, 28.1

  Chester Upland School District

  Chetty, Raj

  Chetty study, 11.1, nts.1n

  Chicago, Ill., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 30.1, 31.1

  merit pay in

  Renaissance 2010 in, 20.1, 20.2

  turnaround in

  Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), 30.1, 33.1

  Chiefs for Change

  China

  international tests in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  choice, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 28.1, 31.1, 32.1, 33.1, 33.2

  see also charter schools; online schools; vouchers

  choice movement

  Christie, Chris, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1

  Chubb, John, 17.1, 19.1

  Churchill, Sir Winston

  civics, 1.1, 2.1, 24.1, 30.1

  Civilian Conservation Corps, 4.1, 30.1

  civil rights, 4.1, 16.1, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1

  corporate reform claims and, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 14.1

  union support for, 3.1, nts.1n

  Civil Rights Act (1964)

  Civil Rights Project (UCLA), 31.1, 31.2, 31.3

  class size, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 27.1, 31.1, 32.1, nts.1n

  in charter schools, 16.1, 16.2

  in early elementary grades, 1.1, 23.1, 25.1

  online schools and, 17.1, 17.2

  reduction of, 20.1, 25.1, 31.1

  Scholastic-Gates survey on

  Cleveland, Ohio, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 30.1

  vouchers in, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3

  Clinton, Bill (Clinton administration), 2.1, 4.1, 16.1

  Cody, Anthony, 3.1, 14.1, 20.1

  Cohen, David K.

  Cold War, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1

  Coley, Richard

  collaboration (teamwork), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 33.1

  charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 26.1, 26.2

  collective bargaining, 3.1, 13.1, 15.1

  College Board, 9.1, 17.1

  college education, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 17.1, 25.1, app.17

  cost of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  desegregation and, 31.1, 31.2

  good education and, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3

  tenure and

  value and purpose of, 9.1, 9.2

  vouchers and

  college graduation rates, 9.1, 21.1

  Colorado, 2.1, 7.1, 14.1, 32.1

  online schools in, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3

  Colorado Virtual Academy, 17.1, 17.2

  Comer, James

  Comer Process

  Common Core State Standards, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 17.1, 30.1, 31.1, 33.1

  community, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 8.1, 20.1, 24.1, 32.1,
32.2, 32.3, 33.1

  charters and, 26.1, 26.2

  democratic control and, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 33.1, 33.2

  community colleges

  Community Renewal Tax Relief Act (2000)

  competition, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 14.1, 28.1, 31.1, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1

  charter schools and, 2.1, 2.2, 10.1, 16.1

  global, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 24.1, 32.1

  merit pay and, 12.1, 12.2

  in Race to the Top, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 16.1, 30.1

  vouchers and, 19.1, 19.2

  computers, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 26.1, 32.1

  online schools and, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5

  Conference of Mayors, U.S.

  Congress, U.S., 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 20.1, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 31.1, 32.1, 33.1, nts.1n

  GI Bill of Rights and

  vouchers and, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2

  Connecticut, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 32.1, 33.1

  Connections Academy, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4

  conservatives, conservatism, 6.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 32.1, 33.1

  governors, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 26.1

  parent trigger and, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4

  vouchers and, 19.1, 19.2

  Consortium on Chicago School Research, 20.1, 20.2

  Constitution, U.S., 16.1, 24.1, 30.1

  consultants, consulting, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2

  consumerism, 32.1, 33.1

  Corbett, Tom

  corporate reform, 2.1, 20.1, 30.1, 32.1

  achievement gap and, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2

  charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2

  civil rights movement claims of, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 14.1

  college education and, 9.1, 10.1

  disdain for teachers of

  lack of popular base for

  language of, 3.1, 4.1

  merit pay and, 12.1, 12.2

  online education and, 17.1, 17.2

  pattern of

  poverty effects and, 10.1, 10.2, 21.1, 27.1

  progressive themes and language co-opted by

  Rhee and, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3

  school boards and

  school closings and

  seniority, tenure and, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  teacher effectiveness and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 13.1

  TFA and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

  corporations, effects of merit pay on

  Council on Foreign Relations

  creationism, 3.1, 16.1, 19.1, 33.1

  “creative destruction,” 17.1, 32.1

  creative disruption, 32.1, 32.2

  creativity, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 16.1, 24.1, 32.1, 33.1

  crime, 6.1, 23.1, 31.1

 

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