Equal Scrutiny

Privatization and Accountability in Digital Education

Patricia Burch, Annalee G. Good (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2014
Harvard Educational Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-61250-684-5 (ISBN)

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In the current rush to adopt and expand digital learning, many important considerations are being overlooked that will have major consequences for the future of American public education. As private education technology contractors and vendors move deeper into the work of public education, questions concerning the quality of the services, who is served, and who benefits need to be answered.

Based on participatory research and other studies of three types of digital education - digital courses, blended learning, and online tutoring - Equal Scrutiny offers readers an inside view of what is really going on in the world of digital education and the uneven experiences of students, their parents, and teachers.

The authors also offer critical questions that need to be asked in order to - in the authors words - ""ensure that technology adds value to the learning and lives of students and staff in public school communities"".

Patricia Burch is an associate professor of education at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Annalee G. Good is the research director for the Multisite Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services at the Wisconsin Center for Educational Services at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. She also teaches online courses for middle-schoolers.

CONTENTS

Introduction 1

PART ONE
Looking Upstream

1 The Storm Surge in Digital Education and Privatization 11

2 Faulty Assumptions 41
How Market Models of Accountability Undercut the Potential of Digital Education

PART TWO
Looking Downstream

3 The Promises and Challenges of Instructor-Driven Digital Courses 69

4 Commercial Spaces and Opportunities to Learn in a Digital School 93

5 Policy Context and Commercial Decisions in Digital Tutoring 117

PART THREE
Shifting the Current

6 Changing the Dialogue 145
Tools for Building Transparency and Accountability in Digital Education for Students in Low-Income Settings

7 Equal Scrutiny 175
Digital Education and the Struggle for Equity, Quality, and Accountability

Appendix 189
Research Notes on the Digital Education Cases

Notes 197
Acknowledgments 213
About the Authors 215
Index 217

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2014
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 223 mm
Gewicht	325 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-61250-684-4 / 1612506844
ISBN-13	978-1-61250-684-5 / 9781612506845
Zustand	Neuware