Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society

A review

Clive Harber is a prof at the University of Birmingham, England. He's written a great review of our book. It's published in the latest issue of Teachers College Record.

The title of the series in which this book is published is “Education, Politics and Culture” which suits the lively and politically committed content very well. Fundamentally, the book is about how a progressive educational movement aimed at facilitating smaller and more democratic urban schools in America became hijacked by the neo-conservative agenda of the Bush administration and its many powerful allies. In so doing it cannot fail to tackle the wider educational and political issues of the last eight years and their antecedents, which it does with admirable clarity and detail... Read the rest of the review, here.