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Name: Jack Schneider - A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door (retail) (epub)
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Title: A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
Author: Jack Schneider
Language: English
Year: 8320
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 8320030919
Total pages: 540 str.

A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways-and how to fight back
In the "vigorous, well-informed" (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do away with public education.
"Cut[ing] through the rhetorical fog surrounding a host of free-market reforms and innovations" (Mike Rose), Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire lay bare the dogma of privatization and reveal how it fits into the current context of right-wing political movements. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door "goes above and beyond the typical explanations" (SchoolPolicy.org), giving readers an up-close look at the policies-school vouchers, the war on teachers' unions, tax credit scholarships, virtual schools, and more-driving the...