Waiting for Superman: Neoliberal Educational Reform and the Craft of Filmic Direction

Prado, Jose; de, Jeffrey Montez

doi:10.1080/10714413.2014.938567

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“…Named problems such as low literacy rates, high drop-out rates, and low aspirations among urban youth are narrated and reinforced by the media (Haymes, 1995). For example, films such as Waiting for Superman released in 2013 reinforce a narrative that urban youth are failing, but hopeful they can be saved by corporate reformers like Bill Gates, Steve Barr, Geoffrey Canada, and Michelle Rhee from their fast tracks to nowhere (Dumas, 2013;Prado & Montez de Oca, 2014).…”

Section: Discourses Are Rooted In Racial Pathologymentioning

confidence: 99%

We’ve Been Had: Neoliberal Initiatives in Urban Education

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In this manuscript, we rely on practices of thinking with and through theory to situate and analyze the discourses of three neoliberal educational reform initiatives. We researched public-facing material from these initiatives to surface how commonsense language and colorblindness is often used to disguise agendas that reaffirm the racial status quo in urban schools and society. We offer strategies for educators, teacher-educators, and administrators to critically respond when they encounter such neoliberal reforms.

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Section: Discourses Are Rooted In Racial Pathologymentioning

confidence: 99%