Books in the Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture series

Illustrating the successes, failures, and ultimate demise of the largest for-profit manager of public schools, author Saltman argues that the failures of The Edison Schools offer valuable lessons for remaining Educational Management Organizations.

With an eye to the historical development of segregated education, this book examines the state of school funding as a source of educational inequities, but argues that unequal funding is not to be mistaken for the sole cause of unequal schools. It investigates the disparities in teacher quality and teacher stability; and the curriculum.

Commercial activity in schools reflects the consumerist society at large. This book reviews the historical development of this situation and questions whether corporate marketing and profit-making belong in an educational setting. It offers the marketer's and the educationalist's perspectives for evaluation.

Tells the story of how a promising model of creating small schools has been used by the neocons to reproduce old inequities.