The Gates Foundation and the Future of US Public Schools

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 From Carnegie to Gates: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Venture Philanthropy Agenda for Public Education
2 Power Philanthropy: Taking the Public Out of Public Education
3 The Gates Foundation’s Interventions into Education, Health, and Food Policies: Technology, Power, and the Privatization of Political Problems
4 Marketing New Schools for a New Century: An Examination of Neoliberal School Reform in New York City
5 Corporatism, KIPP, and Cultural Eugenics
6 Disabusing Small-Schools Reformism: An Alternative Outlook on Scaling Up and Down
7 Governing Identity through Neoliberal Education Initiatives: ‘Get[ting] Schooled’ in the Marketplace
8 The Gates’ Foundation and the Future of U.S. Public Education: A Call for Scholars to Counter Misinformation Campaigns
9 The Giving Business: Venture Philanthropy and the NewSchools Venture Fund
10 Dear Bill: ‘Grokking’ Education
11 An Open Letter to Bill Gates, Jr. (with a Message to My Colleagues)
12 Why Current Education Reform Efforts Will Fail
Contributors
Index