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Jack Schneider, College of Education Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor, has co-authored a second book with journalist Jennifer C. Berkshire, “The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual,” which was published this past July by The New Press.
A call to action to preserve public school education, the book explores ever-important questions about the “culture war” limiting the bounds of what can be taught in American public schools, asking and answering what is behind the extremist movement threatening the foundation of public education and how Americans can begin to fight back.
The work analyzes the rise in book-banning efforts as they relate to a recent obsession with race and gender in schools and offers a discussion about school vouchers, the movement for parents’ rights, and the pursuit of religious freedom.
Schneider, who is also director of the Center for Education Policy at UMass Amherst, and Berkshire outline what is at stake and chart a road forward to ensure the survival of public education.
In a starred review of the book, Publishers Weekly wrote that “Berkshire and Schneider do a fabulous job highlighting hypocrisy… while concisely cataloging the billionaires and think tanks funding this fight. It’s an invaluable primer on what’s motivating the public education culture wars.”
For more information about the book or to order a copy, visit www.educationwarsbook.com, where you can also find Schneider and Berkshire’s podcast, “Have You Heard?” that explores “the age-old quest to finally fix the nation’s public schools, one policy issue at a time.”
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