Title
Berlak, Harold, "From Local Control to Government and Corporate Takeover of School Curriculum: The NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Act and the READING FIRST Program," pp. 267-285 in H. Svi Shapiro and David E. Purpel, eds., Critical Social Issues in American Education, 3rd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.
Annotation
Traces history of NCLB Act and the corporate interests that made its passage possible; points out the damage done to public education by this Act and urges changing these policies
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Historical Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum History, Government Role in Educational Research & Development, Local Control of Schooling, Curriculum Standards and Testing
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