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Title The Gates Foundation and the future of US 'public' schools / edited by Philip E. Kovacs.

Publication Info. New York ; London : Routledge, 2012.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  371.01 G259G    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 231 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism
Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism ; 5.
Contents From Carnegie to Gates : the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the venture philanthropy agenda for public education / Kenneth J. Saltman -- Power philanthropy : taking the public out of public education / Michael Klonsky -- The Gates Foundation's interventions into education, health, and food policies : -- Technology, power, and the privatization of political problems / David Hursh -- Marketing new schools for a new century : an examination of neoliberal school reform in New York City / Jessica Shiller -- Corporatism, KIPP, and cultural eugenics / Jim Horn -- Disabusing small-schools reformism : an alternative outlook on scaling up and down / Aimee Howley and Craig B. Howley -- Governing identity through neoliberal education initiatives : "get[ting] schooled" in the marketplace / Leslee Grey -- The Gates' Foundation and the future of U.S. public education : a call for scholars to counter misinformation campaigns / Philip E. Kovacs and H.K. Christie -- The giving business : venture philanthropy and the NewSchools venture fund / Jim Horn and Ken Libby -- Dear Bill: "grokking" education / Patti Lather -- An open letter to Bill Gates, Jr. (with a message to my colleagues) / David Gabbard -- Why current education reform efforts will fail / Marion Brady.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Educational change -- United States.
Public schools -- United States -- Administration.
Public schools -- United States -- Finance.
Education and state -- United States.
Endowments -- United States.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (OCoLC)fst00774499
Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
Endowments. (OCoLC)fst00909854
Public schools -- Administration. (OCoLC)fst01082945
Public schools -- Finance. (OCoLC)fst01906287
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Kovacs, Philip E., editor.
ISBN 9780415536639 (paperback)
0415536634 (paperback)
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