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Complexity And Complicity: Quality(S) And/Or Effectiveness In Teacher Education, Todd Alan Price Jan 2014

Complexity And Complicity: Quality(S) And/Or Effectiveness In Teacher Education, Todd Alan Price

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The period spanning 2001 to 2015 could best be characterized in the words “shock and awe” in the United States of America. During this tumultuous time, the public good was placed under increasingly austere measures as a direct result of war, widespread financial speculation, and crash of the financial, investment, and real estate market(s). Subsequently, a banking industry bailout of epic proportions - shouldered disproportionately by average American taxpayers - led to political upheavals, and an increasingly divided body politic. Public education was severely impacted. With the No Child Left Behind Act (2002) school districts were placed under audit and …