The Magic of Philanthropy”
The Gates Foundation’s Reframing of Education Reform Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12464922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Webber (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-330 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric and Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-8392 • E-ISSN: 1534-5238 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.23.2.0293 |
| OpenAlex | W3045881454 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The Gates Foundation invokes a third way in education reform debate by appealing not to government regulation or market competition but to philanthropic investment as a catalyst for improving educational equity. While the foundation praises this investment as transcending the conventional polarities of debate, I argue that this praise assigns a familiar form of blame toward public education and educators, for it declares philanthropists the only reformers whose commitments to educational civil rights remain uncompromised by political-economic self-interest. In light of this analysis, I qualify the deliberative potential of praise as a rhetoric of education reform
Blame · Cognitive reframing · Equity (law · Foundation (evidence · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Praise · Rhetoric · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Public Administration · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |