Description:
Examines political calls for market-based education reform and explores the efforts of public-school advocates to build democratically spirited connections between schools and communities.
Brief description: Robert Asen is Stephen E. Lucas Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of numerous books, including Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, also published by Penn State University Press.
Review Quotes:
"School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy deals deftly with the pressing question of how well democratic practices and public advocacy hold up against the structures of neoliberalism and its valorization of market logics. This book uses both theoretical and empirical evidence to highlight the limitations of market logics for collective projects and suggests that we recommit ourselves to the difficult work of local political practice."
--Catherine J. Chaput, author of Inside the Teaching Machine: Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University