Title
Koyama, Jill P., Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Annotation
Reports a study of certain New York City schools' efforts at implementing the Supplementary Education Services component of NCLB; employs ethnographic methods of research and actor-network theory; focuses on United Education, provider of these services; reports verbatim quotations from its providers and from other actors in and out of the public schools.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Curriculum Implementation, Local Control of Schooling, Government Role in Educational Research & Development
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