Educating the Right Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality: Schools and the Conservative Alliance - Softcover

Apple, Michael W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415924626 ISBN 13: 9780415924627

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy. It takes a pragmatic look at what critical educators can do to build alternative coalitions and policies that are more democratic. Apple urges this group to extricate itself from its reliance on the language of possibility in order to employ pragmatic analyses that address the material realities of social power.

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Review

"If there is a book that marks the beginning of a new century, with its agonies of defeat and its utopian promises, this is the book." -Carlos Alberto Torres, author of "Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism "No student of education can afford not to hear the story that Apple so ably tells." -Jeannie Oakes, co-author of "Because of the Kids: Facing Racial and Cultural Differences in Schools

Synopsis

As American schools undergo a dramatic shift to the right, Michael W. Apple uncovers the roots of this conservative swing and points the way to a more balanced approach.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415924626
• ISBN 13: 9780415924627
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304