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01-12-2015 | Book Review

Anthony Cody, The Educator and the Oligarch

New York: Garn Press, 2014. 212 pp. $17.99. ISBN: 978-1942146001

Author: Lisa Auslander

Published in: Society | Issue 6/2015

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Anthony Cody, in his book, The Educator and the Oligarch, takes on the Gates foundation and their philanthropic reform efforts to change the educational system into one built by technology and science. Cody’s premise in the book in his introduction is that he did not set out to find Gates, but that Gates and the “other giants of corporate school reform” found him during his tenure as teacher where he was working to build the Oakland school science team. (4) There, he encountered the beginning of educational reforms, including the Teach for America (TFA) movement, where corps of young, idealist educators are often recruited to teach after only a few weeks of training. He discusses the arrival of the film Waiting for Superman that promoted charter schools with a very corporate-driven widely promoted media campaign. In many ways, Cody saw these initiatives to undermine the work of teachers: “…they brought over and over the message the message that my students, colleagues and the schools in which worked were failures…” (5) He provides helpful insights as to the ways that this movement and the Gates reform efforts often misses the mark in terms of understanding the needs of educators themselves and the students they serve. …

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Title
Anthony Cody, The Educator and the Oligarch
New York: Garn Press, 2014. 212 pp. $17.99. ISBN: 978-1942146001
Author
Lisa Auslander
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 6/2015
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9956-5

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