Malfunction of US Education Policy (eBook)

Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness

Richard P. Phelps (Autor)

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2023
196 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6995-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleThe Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness biased and inefficient information dissemination that has degraded US education research and policy since the year 2001, when a series of unfortunate disruptions began:first, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and federal imposition of an idiosyncratic and ineffectual testing program;second, the "e;big bang"e; reorganization of the US education testing industry from a stable, cooperative oligopoly run by psychometricians to a commercially competitive free-for-all with more opportunist and customer-pleasing ambitions; andthird, the Common Core standards, which mandated homogenous lower content standards onto the still required NCLB testing structure.Billions from the federal government and wealthy foundations have transformed many once-independent national education organizations into "e;cargo cult"e; dependents and promoters of the new order, intolerant of divergent points of view. The research and policy brain trust responsible comprised an alliance of convenience among two "e;citation cartels"e; of establishment and reform scholars and politicos, and an astonishingly cooperative and un-skeptical group of journalists. It succeeded in focusing attention on their work, while diverting attention away from a much larger universe of others' work (by ignoring, dismissing, or demeaning it) that included a century's worth of mostly experimental scholarship in the fields of psychology and program evaluation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.4.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 10 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 8 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: celebrity scholar • citation cartel • common core • Common Core Standards • dismissive review • Educational leadership • education policy formation • education policy research • Education research • evaluating educational policy • firstness claim • No Child Left Behind • pack funding • research on education • school testing • Standardized testing • strategic scholar
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-6995-9 / 1475869959
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-6995-8 / 9781475869958