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David Hursh’s New Book, The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education | deutsch29

David Hursh’s New Book, The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education | deutsch29:

David Hursh’s New Book, The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education

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(The Kindle version is already available on Amazon.com. Moreover, this flyer from Routledge includes information on a 20 percent discount.)
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David Hursh


University of Rochester (New York) education professor David Hursh has a new book coming out on November 23, 2015: The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education (Routledge).



Hursh’s The End of Public Schools is divided into five chapters:
Chapter 1: The Demise of the Public in Public Schools
Chapter 2: Understanding the Rise of Neoliberal Policies
Chapter 3: Governor Cuomo and the Neoliberal Attack on Public Schools, Teachers, and Unions
Chapter 4: The Gates Foundation, Pearson, and Arne Duncan
Chapter 5: Manufactured and Real Crises: Rethinking Education and Capitalism
In this post, I offer a glimpse into each chapter via thought-provoking excerpts that attest to the overall quality of Hursh’s book. (Note: In-text citations removed for ease of presentation.)
From Chapter 1, “The Demise of the Public in Public Schools”:
We need to understand that the education reforms are not minor changes in how schools are administered, or how tests and curriculum are created, or 
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