{"id":38,"date":"2005-05-05T06:25:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/05\/05\/when-politics-profit-and-education-collide\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T06:25:06","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T14:25:06","slug":"when-politics-profit-and-education-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/05\/when-politics-profit-and-education-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"When politics, profit, and education collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heinemann.com\/shared\/products\/E00647.asp\"><i>In Defense of Our Children: When Politics, Profits and Education Collide<\/i><\/a>, Elaine Garan describes how high-stakes testing and  government ditaks on curriculum materals (specifically for teaching reading) are severely damaging public education.<\/p>\n<p>Garan argues that the No Child Left Behind Act is a tool for the coporate takeover of public schools that has also created serious conflicts of interests for certain educational researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Garan lays bare problems with the National Reading Panel (NRP) report, with a critique that complements excellent research on the same topic by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heinemann.com\/shared\/authors\/1411.asp\">Gerald Coles<\/a>. She also illustrates how the NCLB requirement that any &#8220;instructional materials&#8221; purchased with program funds must be &#8220;based on scientifically based reading research&#8221; (NCLB Sect. 1202(b)(7)(iii)) damages reading instruction.<\/p>\n<p>In his review of the book in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcrecord.org\/Content.asp?ContentId=11835\"><i>Teachers College Record<\/i><\/a>, Gary Ranter concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Garan has performed a valuable service by challenging the purported &#8220;scientific basis&#8221; for the commercial reading programs that the government requires states and localities to adopt to receive funding under NCLB&#8217;s Reading First initiative. And she is right to urge parents and teachers to learn more about the new NCLB &#8220;reforms,&#8221; to organize, and to advocate at the state and local levels against &#8220;corporate takeovers&#8221; of public education and &#8220;deskilling of teachers&#8221; (p. 150).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her new book, In Defense of Our Children: When Politics, Profits and Education Collide, Elaine Garan describes how high-stakes testing and government ditaks on curriculum materals (specifically for teaching reading) are severely damaging public education. Garan argues that the No Child Left Behind Act is a tool for the coporate takeover of public schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}