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Nancy E. Bailey, Ph.D. taught students with a wide range of beautiful differences in special education for many years. She can be found advocating for democratic public schools on her blog Nancy Bailey’s Education Website at www.nancyebailey.com. She is the author of the 2013 Misguided Education reform: Debating the Impact on Students.
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Corporate Takeover
School Privatization
New American Schools
Edison Schools
The Sandia Report
The Business Roundtable
Venture Philanthropy
Walton Family Foundation
Broad Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
High-Stakes Testing
Common Core State Standards
Teachers Unions
American Legislative Exchange Council
Conclusion: America’s Schools
Chapter 2 Replacing Public Schools with Charter Schools
Lost Opportunity
Non-Profit/For-Profit
Charters v. Public Schools
Segregation
Special Education
KIPP
Conclusion: The End of Charter Schools
Chapter 3 Students, Jobs and the Global Economy
Scapegoats
Standards
College for All
Privatized High School Programs
STEM
Vocational—Career and Technical Education
Dropouts
The Military
Conclusion: Careers
Chapter 4 Religion’s Threat to Public Schools
Horace Mann
Churches
Charter Schools
Vouchers
Character Education
Conclusion: Separation of Church and State
Chapter 5 Vanishing Professions—Teachers and School Leaders
Deprofessionalization
Teach for America
The New Teacher Project
Colleges of Education
Teacher Certification
National Council on Teacher Quality
New Leaders
Superintendents and School Leaders
Michelle Rhee
Secretary of Education
Conclusion: Educators
Chapter 6 Virtual v. Brick and Mortar Public Schools
Disruption
Online Schools
Privatizing Online Schools
K12 Inc.
School of the Future
Rocketship
Student Privacy
Competency-Based Education
Conclusion: Real Schools and Teachers
Conclusion
References
About the author
Nancy Bailey’s Losing America’s Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education reveals the shenanigans used by those who are busy turning public education into just another commodity. In a very well-researched and documented display of wisdom, Bailey offers a detailed look at school privatization from Reagan to current-day venture capitalists. I have learned a lot from Dr. Bailey. Her honesty shines on every page. This book is a must-read for parents, teachers, community leaders, politicians, and scholars.
— Doug Martin, author of “Hoosier School Heist: How Corporations and Theocrats Stole Democracy From Public Education”
Nancy Bailey's book is not just important for American schools, teachers, parents and children. The attack on publicly funded schools that she documents so clearly in her excellent book has also been taking place in parallel here in England. Her book deserves and needs to be widely read on both sides of the Atlantic.
— Roger Titcombe, retired headteacher, educational researcher and author of Learning Matters. https://rogertitcombelearningmatters.wordpress.com/
Bailey’s message, which reveals the ugly truth hidden behind the golden rhetoric of deep-pocketed “reformers,” has been ignored and/or suppressed by the mainstream media, but it is one that is vital for the American public to grasp. The philanthropist in the true sense, the one who loves human beings, is Nancy Bailey herself, for exposing the harm of the “reformers’” policies and for keeping the needs of all children for an engaging, enriching educational experience as her utmost concern.
— Sheila Resseger, retired ELA teacher at the RI School for the Deaf