Rotten to the (common) core: public schooling, standardized tests, and the surveillance state

Joseph P. Farrell, well known for his widely-discussed investigations on contemporary banks and ruling structures, co-writes this fascinating book regarding contemporary schooling with long-time New York state instructor Gary Lawrence. Both authors maintain that the future of American education stan...

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Beteiligte Personen: Farrell, Joseph P. 1939- (VerfasserIn), Lawrence, Gary (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Port Townsend, WA Process 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Joseph P. Farrell, well known for his widely-discussed investigations on contemporary banks and ruling structures, co-writes this fascinating book regarding contemporary schooling with long-time New York state instructor Gary Lawrence. Both authors maintain that the future of American education stands in a tradition of social engineering, data mining, pseudo-psychology, and dumbing down classroom strategies. Says Farrell, "It it is our contention that the goal of Common Core, or rather, of its assessment process, is nothing less than a massive addition to the power of the surveillance state, to the privileged corporations destined to manage it, to the further drastic curtailment of our civil liberties, and to the eventual inhibition of any individual creativity, genius, responsibility, and any general or popular intellectual culture resulting from them. Our goal is to stimulate discussion of Common Core
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographic references
Umfang:xxvii, 155 pages illustrations 23 cm
ISBN:9781934170649