End of Public Schools

David W. Hursh is Professor of Teaching and Curriculum in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester, NY, USA.

• Series Editor Introduction. Michael W. Apple. Chapter 1: The Demise of the Public in Public Schools. Chapter 2: Understanding the Rise of Neoliberal Policies. Chapter 3: Governor Cuomo and the Neoliberal Attack on Public Schools, Teachers, and Unions. Chapter 4: The Gates Foundation, Pearson, Inc. and Arne Duncan. Chapter 5: Manufactured and Real Crises: Rethinking Education and Capitalism.

"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 in its 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