Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators

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Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators

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Co-authored by Jamie Atkinson, MSU faculty member.

In 1971, corporate lawyer and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a detailed memo that galvanized a small group of conservative philanthropists to create an organizational structure and fifty-year plan to alter the political landscape of the United States. Funded with significant “dark money,” the fruits of their labor are evident today in the current political context and sharp cultural divisions in society. Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance examines the ideologies behind the philanthropic efforts in education from the 1970s until today. Authors examine specific strategies philanthropists have used to impact both educational policy and practice in the U.S. as well as the legal and policy context in which these initiatives have thrived. The book, aimed for a broad audience of educators, provides a depth of knowledge of philanthropic funding as well as specific strategies to incite collective resistance to the current context of hyperaccountability, privatization of schooling at all levels, and attempts to move the U.S. further away from a commitment to the collective good.

Publication Date

2018

Publisher

Myers Education Press

City

Gorham, Maine

ISBN

978-1975500702

Digital Measures ID

176736901120

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Reading, Foundations and Technology

Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators

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