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Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools (Repost)

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Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools (Repost)

Jill P. Koyama, "Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools"
U-ty Of Ch.cago Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0226451747, 0226451739 | 192 pages | PDF | 1 MB

A little-discussed aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that requires failing schools to hire after-school tutoring companies—the largest of which are private, for-profit corporations—and to pay them with federal funds. Making Failure Pay takes a hard look at the implications of this new blurring of the boundaries between government, schools, and commerce in New York City, the country’s largest school district.