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Overview"In the current rush to adopt and expand digital learning, many important considerations are being overlooked that will have major consequences for the future of American public education. As private education technology contractors and vendors move deeper into the work of public education, questions concerning the quality of the services, who is served, and who benefits need to be answered. Based on participatory research and other studies of three types of digital education - digital courses, blended learning, and online tutoring - Equal Scrutiny offers readers an inside view of what is really going on in the world of digital education and the uneven experiences of students, their parents, and teachers. The authors also offer critical questions that need to be asked in order to - in the authors words - """"ensure that technology adds value to the learning and lives of students and staff in public school communities""""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia Burch , Annalee G. GoodPublisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group Imprint: Harvard Educational Publishing Group Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.325kg ISBN: 9781612506845ISBN 10: 1612506844 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 30 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction 1 PART ONE Looking Upstream 1 The Storm Surge in Digital Education and Privatization 11 2 Faulty Assumptions 41 How Market Models of Accountability Undercut the Potential of Digital Education PART TWO Looking Downstream 3 The Promises and Challenges of Instructor-Driven Digital Courses 69 4 Commercial Spaces and Opportunities to Learn in a Digital School 93 5 Policy Context and Commercial Decisions in Digital Tutoring 117 PART THREE Shifting the Current 6 Changing the Dialogue 145 Tools for Building Transparency and Accountability in Digital Education for Students in Low-Income Settings 7 Equal Scrutiny 175 Digital Education and the Struggle for Equity, Quality, and Accountability Appendix 189 Research Notes on the Digital Education Cases Notes 197 Acknowledgments 213 About the Authors 215 Index 217ReviewsEqual Scrutiny is a must-read for all twenty-first century educators. Revealing, sensible, balanced, and provocative, this book should lead to much-needed discussions about how digital education, which is mostly unregulated and unaccountable, is changing schooling in ways that have yet to increase learning opportunities for low-income students. Jill Koyama, assistant professor, educational leadership and policy, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York This lucid challenge of the marketing hype promoting privatizing initiatives in digital education directs needed attention to the paucity of evidence behind claims and lays needed groundwork for future empirical studies. Henry M. Levin, William H Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University By connecting digital education to the social and economic forces that are powerfully affecting education and the realities of teachers lives, Patricia Burch and Annalee Good provide us with a nuanced, unromantic, and data-rich analysis of the limits and possibilities of digital education. Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Burch and Good skillfully demonstrate how technology and privatization have become intertwined in the current school reform movement. Few researchers offer us the quality of insights that Burch and Good give us in Equal Scrutiny. Christopher Lubienski, professor of education policy, organization, and leadership, College of Education, University of Illinois Equal Scrutiny is a must-read for all twenty-first century educators. Revealing, sensible, balanced, and provocative, this book should lead to much-needed discussions about how digital education, which is mostly unregulated and unaccountable, is changing schooling in ways that have yet to increase learning opportunities for low-income students. Jill Koyama, assistant professor, educational leadership and policy, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Equal Scrutiny is a must-read for all twenty-first century educators. Revealing, sensible, balanced, and provocative, this book should lead to much-needed discussions about how digital education, which is mostly unregulated and unaccountable, is changing schooling in ways that have yet to increase learning opportunities for low-income students. Jill Koyama, assistant professor, educational leadership and policy, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Burch and Good skillfully demonstrate how technology and privatization have become intertwined in the current school reform movement. Few researchers offer us the quality of insights that Burch and Good give us in Equal Scrutiny. Christopher Lubienski, professor of education policy, organization, and leadership, College of Education, University of Illinois By connecting digital education to the social and economic forces that are powerfully affecting education and the realities of teachers lives, Patricia Burch and Annalee Good provide us with a nuanced, unromantic, and data-rich analysis of the limits and possibilities of digital education. Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison This lucid challenge of the marketing hype promoting privatizing initiatives in digital education directs needed attention to the paucity of evidence behind claims and lays needed groundwork for future empirical studies. Henry M. Levin, William H Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Author InformationPatricia Burch is an associate professor of education at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Annalee G. Good is the research director for the Multisite Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services at the Wisconsin Center for Educational Services at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. She also teaches online courses for middle-schoolers. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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