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The Testing Industrial Complex (TIC), is a system in which high-stakes standardized testing fuels neoliberal education reforms. The “reforms” create a system in which curriculum, students, and teachers become currencies traded for corporate profit. The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), is a system in which inmates are currency offered in trade to private corporations. The analogous systems grow from neoliberalism unplugged—a concert of neoliberal policy that supplants humanity with financial gain for U.S. Elite.
U.S. Education Reform and the Maintenance of White Supremacy through Structural Violence 2015
Deborah Keisch, PhD, Tim Scott
U.S public schools are more segregated today than they have been since before the desegregation efforts that followed the 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, (Kozol, 2005, Mullins, 2013; Rothstein, 2013; Strauss, 2014; UCLA, 2014). Coinciding with this segregation are vast racial inequities and stratification, which are being intensified through the policies known as corporate education reform. In this article, we share the voices and stories of scholars and education activists who have documented the racism and segregation of U.S. public schooling over the rise of corporate education reform. We start with the current state of our segregated schools, what Jonathan Kozol refers to as “apartheid education” (Kozol, 2005). We then take a step back and look at the historical and ideological context of U.S. schooling under industrial capitalism, white supremacy and neoliberalism, all creating the perfect storm for the punitive and dehumanizing conditions within 21st century public education. We will then explore the formula of corporate education reform through an examination of specific instruments used to enact these policies: school choice and charters, high-stakes testing, and the disciplining and criminalizing of black and brown bodies. We also examine the delivery of these policies via the discourse used to justify them and the intentions behind them. Finally, we call the question of whether public schools are our best hope for achieving social and economic equity and how those working in this struggle might keep that vision in mind.
Cash is King: How Market-Based Strategies Have Corrupted Classrooms and Criminal Courts in Post-Katrina New Orleans
2016 •
Olympia Duhart
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1200 I. EXPANSION OF CHARTER SCHOOLS AT THE EXPENSE OF VULNERABLE STUDENTS 1201 A. Questionable Practices 1209 B. Challenges from the Classroom to the Courtroom 1210 II. THE POOR BEAR THE COSTS OF THE NEW ORLEANS CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 1213 III. POSSIBLE CORRECTIVE MEASURES 1221 CONCLUSION 1223
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Bryan Lopez
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society announces the release of a major new publication, entitled We Too Belong: Resource Guide of Inclusive Practices in Immigration and Incarceration Law & Policy. The resource guide highlights inclusive policies and practices, supplemented by case studies centered at the intersection of immigration and incarceration in the United States. These systems are sometimes referred to as the "Double Is." "The most marginalized populations in the history of our society were those that were denied public voice or access to private space. Historically, women and slaves experienced this form of marginality. They could not vote, serve on juries, nor run for office, and they were also denied a private space to retreat to, free from surveillance or regulation. Today, immigrants, the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated, and to a large extent the disabled, most visibly inhabit this marginalized social and spatial location in Amer...
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This report argues that, in order to understand racial and economic inequality among black Americans, we must acknowledge the racial rules that undergird our economy and society. Those rules—laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices—are the driving force behind the patently unequal life chances and opportunities for too many individuals.
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From Rehabilitation to Punishment: American Corrections After 1945
Erin J. Lux
The incarceration rate in the United States has increased dramatically in the period since 1945. How did the United States move from having stable incarceration rates in line with global norms to the largest system of incarceration in the world? This study examines the political and intellectual aspects of incarceration and theories of criminal justice by looking at the contributions of journalists, intellectuals and policy makers to the debate on whether the purpose of the justice system is rehabilitation, vengeance, deterrence or incapacitation. This thesis finds that justice and the institution of the prison itself are not immutable facts of modern civilization, but are human institutions vulnerable to the influence of politics, culture and current events.
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Corporations Go to Prisons: The Expansion of Corporate Power in the Correctional Industry
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Tracy Chang
Over the last two decades, the U.S. prison population has qua drupled, with some 1.9 million people behind bars in federal and state prisons, and local jails by the year 2000. Corporations are seeking profit-making opportunities from this prison population. In this paper, we examine two major areas through which corpora tions are capitalizing on prison labor: prison privatization and prison industry. We briefly review key explanations of incarceration, re port on the current state of prison privatization and prison indus trialization, examine the impact they have on organized labor, and propose union strategies in fighting against the expansion of cor porate power in the correctional industry.
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