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TEACHERS AS GRANTSEEKERS: PRIVATIZING PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS?
What is the impact of grantseeking on urban public school teachers?
Is finding money for classroom enrichment, professional development,
and school improvement the job of a teacher? This article analyzes
how grantseeking, primarily but not exclusively promoted by numerous
private and corporate foundations, has introduced urban teachers
to and fostered among them some of the central tenets of the movement
to privatize education--to "market" one's teaching as
a product and oneself as a valuable commodity; to embrace competition
and the creation of self-selected communities; and to replace a
commitment to a broad-based democracy in which the needs of all
are met with fulfilling the needs of the "deserving" few.
The article also discusses how assumptions about teachers promote
the ability of a very limited number of high status urban teachers
to successfully compete in such competitions while working to exclude
others, particularly teachers of color and those whose native language
is not English. (Requires site registration.)
http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=10432
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