"Turnaround" as Shock Therapy: Race, Neoliberalism, and School Reform

Autor/in	Johnson, Amanda Walker
Titel	"Turnaround" as Shock Therapy: Race, Neoliberalism, and School Reform
Quelle	In: Urban Education, 48 (2013) 2, S.232-256 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0859
DOI	10.1177/0042085912441941
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Therapy; Educational Change; School Closing; Neoliberalism; School Restructuring; Privatization; Minority Groups; High Schools; School Community Relationship; Trauma; Disadvantaged Schools; Educational History; School Desegregation; Race; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Therapie; Bildungsreform; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Ethnische Minderheit; High school; Oberschule; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Integrative Schule; Rasse; Abstammung
Abstract	"Turnaround" strategies of educational reform promise that school closure, reconstitution, privatizing, and reopening them will bring miraculous results. Questioning the implications, this article situates "turnaround" strategies locally, following the closure of a predominantly minority high school in 2008, in Austin, Texas. The neoliberal reforms, intending to "clean the slate" and privatize school management, constituted "shock therapy." The school's closure also reflected an increasingly punitive approach to state-based support systems. Furthermore, although the state articulated the closure as a benefit to students, the community experienced closure as a type of social and civic death. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10