The End of Public Schools

"Everyone who believes that education fundamentally serves a public good should read David Hursh’s sobering account of today’s neoliberal reform movement. His documentation of the enormous growth of big-money's clout and the manipulation of data to privatize public education is sobering. His call for a new democratic social imaginary rooted in organized activism of educators, parents, and students is compelling and needed." --Christine E. Sleeter, Professor Emerita, College of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA

"This book is shocking and important. Few people have any real sense of what is happening to public education in the US – how much has changed and how much is changing. Hursh documents the extent of privatization inits many forms, and the lack of transparency in or democratic oversight of the processes involved. He also proposes a different vision of public education to that of the ‘market fundamentalists’. The book should be very widely read – before it is too late!" --Stephen J. Ball, Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education, University College London, UK