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"I run into Dave Hill all the time at the coffee shop in our neighborhood. He's always unshaven and badly hungover, with some 16-year-old groupie from Cleveland in tow--and he's just as funny then as he is in Tasteful Nudes. He is my idol." --Malcolm Gladwell

"Dave Hill speaks, rocks, and now writes with a voice so powerful and funny and compelling that I'm pretty sure he's channeling some weird god from another dimension. Basically, this dude is a comedic Cthulhu, and when you read this book, you will either go COMPLETELY MAD or BECOME A SLAVE TO HIS MAD GENIUS. Pray...

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues that the privatization of public services and the capitalization and commodification of education have resulted in the establishment of competitive markets that are marked by selection, exclusion and inequality.

The contributors - academics and organization/social movement activists -...

This book critically identifies and evaluates neoliberal policy and its impacts on schooling/ education in the Rich World. Chapters ask 'What Neoliberal Changes have taken place (e.g. privatisation, vouchers, marketisation, commercialization, school fees, new brutalist public managerialism, and the the assault on the comprehensive / common school principle and on democratic control of schools) and identify neoliberal Drivers' or Levers - national / transnational corporations, think tanks, pressure groups, state power, ideologies/ discourses. The contributors examine the impacts on...

This in-depth critical interrogation of neoliberalism in schooling/education focuses on Resistance to Neoliberal education policies. Contributors examine the impact of Neoliberal education policies on education workers, on Equity/ Equality/ Access/ Rights (especially social class, race' and gender-based) and on democracy, democratic control and critical thinking in education. Chapters analyse and evaluate resistance from NGOs such as the Public Services International, activist organizations such as the Socialist Teachers Alliance in Britain, the Rouge Forum in the USA, teacher trade unions...

In this major critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, the contributors to this volume identify the types, levers, extents and impacts of neoliberal policies globally on education workers' rights, conditions and lives; on social class, race' and gender and other forms of equity, social justice and access; and on democracy, democratic control and critical thinking in education. This truly groundbreaking book exposes the machinations, agenda and impacts of the ' merchandisation' of education by the World Bank, the GATS, (General Agreement on Trade in Services), Conservative...