Educating the Right Way Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality [Paperback]

In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy. It takes a pragmatic look at what critical educators can do to build alternative coalitions and policies that are more democratic. Apple urges this group to extricate itself from its reliance on the language of possibility in order to employ pragmatic analyses that address the material realities of social power.1. Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality.  Introduction.  Joseph's Story.  Conservative Agendas.  Mapping the Right.  Contested Freedom.  Marketizing the World.  Restoring.  Cultural Order.  Church and State.  Economics and religion.  Managerialism.  Analyzing Conservative Modernization.  2. Whose Markets, Whose Knowledge?  Introduction.  Neoliberalism: Schooling, Choice, and Democracy.  Neoconservatism: Teaching Real Knowledge .  Authoritarian Populism: Schooling as God Wanted It.  The Professional and Managerial New Middle Class: More Testing, More Often  3. Producing Inequalities: Conservative Modernization in Policy and Practice.  Gritty Materialities.  Right Turn.  New Markets, Old Traditions.  Markets and Performance.  National Standards, National Curriculum, and National Testing.  Creating Educational Triage.  Thinking Strategically.  4. Who No Child Left Behind Leaves Behind: Class and Race in Audit Cultures.  Introduction: What No Child Left Behind Has Given Us.  Accountability and Inequality.  Changing Commonsense and the Growth of Audit Cultures.  New Managerialism in Class Terms.  The Dispossessed and Support for Audit Culturl“›