The Origins Of The Common Core: How The Free Market Became Public Education Policy

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.

• | Author: D. Owens
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 22, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1349503177
• | ISBN-13: 9781349503179