Jennifer C. Berkshire, Jack Schneider

The Education Wars (eBook, ePUB)

A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A perfectly timed book for the educational resistancethose of us who believe in public schools

Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what educators can teach, and threaten the very foundations of public education. What's behind these efforts? Why are our schools suddenly so vulnerable? And how can the millions of Americans who love their public schools fight back? In this concise, hard-hitting guide, journalist Jennifer C. Berkshire and education scholar Jack Schneider answer these questions and chart a way forward.

The Education Wars explains the sudden obsession with race and gender in schools, as well as the ascendancy of book-banning efforts. It offers a clear analysis of school vouchers and the impact they'll have on school finances. It deciphers the movement for parents' rights, explaining the rights that students and taxpayers also have. And it reveals how the ostensible pursuit of religious freedom opens the door to discrimination against vulnerable children.

Berkshire and Schneider outline the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes. In so doing, they lay out what is at stake for parents, teachers, and students and provide a road map for ensuring that public education survives this present assault.

A book that will enrage and enlighten the millions of citizens who believe in their public schools, here is a long-overdue handbook and guide to action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620978719
• Artikelnr.: 68610579

Autorenporträt

Jennifer C. Berkshire is a freelance journalist and a host of the education podcast Have You Heard. The co-author (with Jack Schneider) of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door and The Education Wars (both published by The New Press), she teaches in the Boston College Prison Education Program and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.