Education Under The Security State (Defending Public Schools)

This highly acclaimed volume in the Defending Public Schools series is now available in paperback from Teachers College Press. It is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth.

Education under the Security State is a volume that vividly and bravely speaks to the crisis of our age....It examines with analytical suppleness and great political verve contemporary conflicts around educational policy, revealing how both policy and pedagogy have been impacted by the increasing militarization, privatization, and corporatization of the security state as well as shifting dynamics within media culture. What becomes clear in Education Under the Security State is that the real threat to the security state is not terrorism but the struggle for democracy. From the Foreword by Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles