Book Series
Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Small Schools
Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96123-3 (Routledge)
Segregated Schools
Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America
Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was "inherently unequal," Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95116-6 (Routledge)
School Commercialism
From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity
Pizza Hut's Book It! program rewards students with pizza for meeting their reading goals. Toys "R" Us paid a Kansas school five dollars for each… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95132-6 (Routledge)
The Edison Schools
Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95046-6 (Routledge)
Affirmative Action
Racial Preference in Black and White
Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95049-7 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Ecopedagogy: Educating for Sustainability in Schools and Society
By Richard Kahn
To be published October 1st 2010