Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools

A Riveting And Highly Disturbing Account Of The Unforeseen Effects Of Nclb In The New York City Public Schools, Making Failure Pay Demonstrates The Full Force Of New Anthropological Approaches To The Examination Of Educational Policy. It Exposes Nclb's Hidden Public-private 'liaisons' That Enable Companies To Profit From The Provision Of Substandard And Poorly Regulated Services That Perpetuate Student Failure. Conceptually Sophisticated And Lucidly Written, This Book Is Indispensable Reading For Educational Policymakers, Policy Researchers, And All Who Have A Stake In U.s. Urban Schools.-peter Demerath, University Of Minnesota --book Jacket. Engaging Failure : Probing The Problematics And Politics Of Policy -- Framing Failure : Interrogating Policy Studies, Policy Theory, And Nclb -- Supplementing Failure : Providing Supplemental Educational Services -- Accentuating Failure : Emphasizing The Need For Help -- Neglecting Failure : Ignoring The Need For Help -- Fabricating Failure : Making Up The Need For Help -- Abandoning Failure : Diffusing Its Impact. Jill P. Koyama. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.