The Risky Business of Education Policy is illuminating! Leading scholars provide current perspectives on education policy research and analysis to help anyone responsible for developing, leading, or implementing policy recognize the basis for such an agenda, the lack of research behind such policies, and the consequences. Readers, especially those responsible for policy implementation, will come away better prepared to challenge ill-begotten agendas that harm rather than help schools and society prepare students for a complex world.
Kenneth Mitchell, EdD, Associate Professor, Manhattanville College, and Editor, AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice
This book should be required reading for current and aspiring school leaders. The authors of The Risky Business of Education Policy expose the layers of neo-liberal educational policymaking that has systematically contributed to the corporatization of children and educators, as well as the general degradation of democracy and equity. This volume will help support school leaders with evidence-based practices and strategies essential to confronting the commodification of education in schools.
Luke Stedrak, EdD, Associate Professor and Hibernia National Bank Endowed Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University.