What America has at stake when some children go to school hungry and others ride in $1,000 strollers
Megan Erickson is an editor at Jacobin magazine and coordinator of early childhood and youth programs at the YMCA. She was formerly an editor and blogger at Big Think, and has taught in both public and private schools in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn.
Informed by her own experiences in the classroom, Erickson shares
her outrage over the disparities between the haves and the rest
with a clear-eyed analysis. A counterweight to 'reformers' whose
anti-union, corporatization of education threatens the very tenets
of our democratic society.
*Annette Fuentes, journalist and author of Lockdown High*
Megan Erickson knows the classroom is not a solvent for class
society. But she remembers that it can be about something more than
class reproduction. There may be no more trustworthy a guide to
schooling in capitalist America than this book.
*Corey Robin, journalist and author of The Reactionary Mind and The
History of a Political Idea*
Cogently written and with a far-ranging, sharp analysis. Anyone who
wants to understand the relationship between educational inequality
and the privatization of public education should read this
book!
*Wayne Au, editor of Rethinking Schools and author of Unequal By
Design*
Megan Erickson deftly skewers neoliberal myths about education and
child-rearing in this must-read book, which will be richly
informative even to readers who are already critical of the status
quo. Erickson is one of the most indispensable thinkers on this
subject.
*Liza Featherstone, journalist and author of Selling Women Short
andStudents Against Sweatshops*
The author's extensive research makes for a compelling case and a
must-read book.
*H.J. Bultinck, Northeastern Illinois University*
Class War is intentionally concise, getting straight to the point
in four chapters that, though exhaustively sourced, make for a
quick and accessible read. The book delves deep into the
ideological underpinnings of the education system, delivering a
critique that's relevant far beyond the school walls.
*Socialism and Democracy*
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