Teaching the market: fostering consent to education markets in the United States

Dan Cohen and Chris Lizotte

Environment and Planning A, 2015, vol. 47, issue 9, 1824-1841

Abstract: Marked-based reforms in education have garnered the support of politicians, philanthropists, and academics, reworking the nature of public education in the United States. In this paper we explore the methods used to produce consent for market-based reforms of primary and secondary (K-12) schooling in the United States, focusing on two case studies to interrogate how this consent is generated as well as how these reforms are resisted in place. In doing so we illustrate how market-making in public services is a contested terrain and the importance of understanding the nature of their roll-out at the local level.

Keywords: education; marketization; primary and secondary schooling; charter schools; mayoral control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1068/a130273p

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