Selling Out Our Schools covers the major issues surrounding "school choice, " vouchers, and the efforts to privatize our public schools. More than 35 articles by nationally respected educators and policymakers. An invaluable resource.

Selling Out Our Schools: Vouchers, Markets, and the Future of Public Education

Education & Teaching

Lowe, Robert

Miner, Barbara

Schools & Teaching

Rethinking Schools

Classroom Crusades covers the religious right's efforts to stamp their own brand of religion and politics upon our country's schools. An important resource for anyone who values the Bill of Rights and American democracy.

Classroom Crusades: Responding to the Religious Right's Agenda for Public Schools

Religion & Spirituality

Barbara Miner, Barbara

Religious Studies

In a magisterial work of narrative nonfiction that weaves together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons from the Heartland tells of an iconic city’s fall from grace—and of its chance for redemption in the twenty-first century. A symbol of middle American working-class values and pride, Wisconsin—and in particular urban Milwaukee—has been at the forefront of a half-century of public education experiments, from desegregation and school choice,” to vouchers and charter schools. Picking up where J. Anthony Lukas’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Common Ground left off, Lessons from the Heartland offers a sweeping narrative portrait of an All-American city at the epicenter of American public education reform, and an exploration of larger issues of race and class in our democracy. Miner (whose daughters went through the Milwaukee public school system and who is a former Milwaukee Journal reporter) brings a journalist’s eye and a parent’s heart to exploring the intricate ways that jobs, housing, and schools intersect, underscoring the intrinsic link between the future of public schools and the dreams and hopes of democracy in a multicultural society. This book will change the way we think about the possibility and promise of American public education.

Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City

Business & Money

Economics

The New Press

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