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Palgrave The Origins of the Common Core How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy by D. Owens, Thomas J. Fiala
Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
1. The Nation Was at Risk and the Public Schools Did It 2. Public Schools: Conservative Coalescence and the Socialist Threat 3. Friedmanomics, School Vouchers and Choice 4. Corporate Superstars and an Inconvenient Truth 5. Public Schools and a Third Way of Governing 6. NCLB and the Texas Tall Tale 7. Education Reform and the Deep State: An Alternate Universe 8. The CCSS: Systemic Education Reform Writ Large 9. CCSS: The Gorilla in the Room for Free Market Education Reform_x000D_