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Saltman (educational policy studies and research, DePaul U.) demonstrates how corporate school reform has failed to address the shortcomings of public schooling. He discusses problems with value-added assessment, the privatization of teacher education, and the anticritical slant of teacher education, and addresses the extent to which corporate school reforms are being implemented despite a lack of evidence for their success and obvious problems, using urban portfolio districts and the reforms of chartering, management contracting, turnarounds, and high-stakes-test-based closures as an example. He describes how the reform uses the metaphors of "market efficiency" achieved by cutting through the public sector's "bureaucratic red tape," and that there is a new market bureaucracy in corporate school reform, and contends for the need for democratic pedagogy to confront corporate school reform, how the liberal response is inadequate, and how educators need to develop a new common school movement that makes the traditions of Dewey, Counts, the reconstructionists, and the critical pedagogy of those such as Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and Stanley Aronowitz central. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
