Toward a New Common School Movement

By Kenneth J. Saltman, Alexander J. Means, Noah De Lissovoy

Book Overview

Toward a New Common School Movement

is a bold and urgent call to action.
The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.
Toward a New Common School Movement suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but represent a broader redistribution of control over social life-that is, the enclosure of the global commons. This condition requires far more than a liberal defense of public schooling. It requires recovering elements of the radical progressive educational tradition while generating a new language of the common suitable to the unique challenges of the global era. Toward a New Common School Movement traces the history of struggles over public schooling in the United States and provides a set of ethical principles for enacting the commons in educational policy, finance, labor, curriculum, and pedagogy. Ultimately, it argues for global educational struggles in common for a just and sustainable future beyond the crises of neoliberalism and predatory capitalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612054412
• ISBN13: 9781612054414
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"