The Business Roundtable and Systemic Reform:  How Corporate-Engineered High-Stakes Testing Has Eliminated Community Participation in Developing  Educational Goals and Policies (PDF)

By Kathy Emery   (PhD Dissertation, UC Davis,  ©2002)

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Abstract

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: The Historical Context of Modern Educational Reform

Chapter Two: Corporate Domination of Current School Policy

Chapter Three:: The Co-optation of Educators and Parents

Chapter Four:: Business Influence on Schools at the Local Level

Chapter Five:: The Revival of “Separate but Equal”

Chapter Six:  California State Educational Policy: The Last Twenty Years

Chapter Seven: How High-Stakes Testing Hijacked Reform in San Francisco

Chapter Eight: The Tragedy of Mission High School

Conclusion

References

Appendices A to H

Appendix i

 

Power Point presentation of Dissertation