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The War Against America's Public Schools: Privatizing Schools, Commercializing Education

reviewed by Patrick J. McEwan � 2002

Title: The War Against America's Public Schools: Privatizing Schools, Commercializing Education
Author(s): Gerald W. Bracey
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA
ISBN: 0321080734 , Pages: 288, Year: 2001
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Gerald Bracey doesn�t mince words.� There is a war, he argues, being waged against public schools.� Its generals are Chester Finn, Eric Hanushek, Milton Friedman, and Paul Peterson.� They plot strategy in darkened chambers of the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution, arming their minions in the financial press with jumbled statistics and specious overstatements.� Their goal is to privatize, commercialize, and ultimately destroy public education (and presumably the American Federation of Teachers if it stumbles into the melee).� In this book, The War Against America's Public Schools, Gerald Bracey mounts a nine-chapter defense that is forceful and occasionally thought provoking, but not always convincing. � Chapter 1 describes the conservative forces arrayed against public schools.� This is familiar territory for casual observers of the �school choice� debate, but Bracey presents it with a vigor that occasionally lapses into paranoia.� The Spencer Foundation is�a little bizarrely�described as a conservative foundation that is not �neutral� or �idea-oriented� (p. 4).� Whipping boys like William Bennett are rightly chastised for mangling statistical data�do we ever... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 104 Number 5, 2002, p. 975-978
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 10882, Date Accessed: 12/9/2018 2:43:24 PM

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Patrick McEwan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign E-mail Author PATRICK J. McEWAN is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include the economics of education and education policy in Latin America.

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