| The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Contributor(s): Saltman, Kenneth J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517900891 ISBN-13: 9781517900892 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Plains & Prairies - Science | Natural History - Nature | Reference |
| Dewey: 508.776 |
| LCCN: 2018001564 |
| Series: Forerunners: Ideas First |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 9.5" W x 8.2" (0.30 lbs) 124 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How "innovative" finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs win support despite being unsupported by empirical evidence. Kenneth J. Saltman details how, under the guise of innovation, cost savings, and corporate social responsibility, new and massive neoliberal educational privatization schemes have been widely adopted in the United States. From a trillion-dollar charter school bubble to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to celebrities branding private schools, Saltman ultimately connects such schemes to the country's current crisis of truth and offers advice for resistance. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship. |