[xmca] FW: New Book Traces Future of America's Public Schools...Special Online Offer: $19.99

["Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>]

I normally don?t forward such announcements, but this one looks pretty good:

 

 "This is the most original book about education in years." 
        ~ Ernest R. House, University of Colorado, Boulder 
 
             Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic Strips: 
           The Fate of Public Education in America 
 
                             Gene V Glass
 
      http://www.infoagepub.com/glass-4.html
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   SPECIAL OFFER:  ORDER ONLINE FOR $19.99 + s/h
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Glass shows how the central education policy 
debates! at the start of the 21st century (vouchers, 
charter schools, tax credits, high-stakes testing, 
bilingual education) are actually about two underlying 
issues: how can the costs of public education be cut, 
and how can the education of the White middle-class 
be "quasi-privatized" at public expense? Working from 
the economic and demographic realities of the past 
thirty years, he projects a challenging and disturbing 
future for public education in America.  
 
REVIEWS
  
"This is the first credible book of the 21st century to 
anticipate the future of public education."    
            ~ David C. Berliner, Former President of the  
               American Educational Research Association;  
            &n! bsp;  Author of The Manufactured Crisis 

"The book makes such impressive sense that one has 
to believe that its clarity, command of the facts, eye 
for absurdity, and concern for justice will garner 
greater support for public education as a common and 
noble cause."      
              ~ John Willinsky, Stanford University; 
                 Author of Learning to Divide the World
 
"...a wake up call to America about the disastrous 
consequences of current policies that shortchange the 
education of the coming majority "Latinos and other 
'minority' students" on whom the very future of the 
nation rests."      
             ~ Patricia Gándara, University of Calif! ornia, 
                Los Angeles; Co-Director, The Civil Rights 
                Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles 
 





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