66.065 - Venture "Philanthropy" and Undoing the "Commons": How the Neoliberal Educational Agenda Is Dismantling Public Schooling

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Philanthropy in education is not new. As Lipman (2001) observes, “ . . . [it] has played a significant role in shaping U.S. education to serve capital accumulation, social control, and White supremacy" (p. 101). The purpose of this symposium is to illuminate a multiplicity of perspectives that invite the audience to consider critically the long-term implications of un-checked and recently dramatically increasing influence by venture ‘philanthropists,’ upon public education in the United States, and given the workings of globalization, the world. Four scholars from different U.S. locations address these implications.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Education and Philanthropy

Chair

• Kathleen P. deMarrais, University of Georgia

Papers

• Venture Philanthropy's Neoliberal Assault on Public Education: Viewing From the Ground in Newark, New Jersey - Carolyne J. White, Rutgers University

• Preparing Social Justice Public Educators: From Fixing Students to Confronting the Inequitable, Neoliberal Educational System - Virginia M. Lea, University of Wisconsin - Stout

• Keeping the "Public" in Public Schooling: The Promise of Affordable, "Quality Education" for California Youth Is at Risk - Roberta Ahlquist, San José State University

• On the Waiting List: Lotteries and the Illusion of a Public Charter Education - Guy B. Senese, Northern Arizona University