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The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideologica...more
Paperback, 205 pages
Published
March 21st 2011
by Routledge
(first published 2010)
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Pauline Lipman must have been one helluva jigsaw puzzle wiz as a kid, because she can put together the complex puzzle of why a school closing on Chicago's West Side is related to the global securities market as well as the neo-liberal assault on public education nationwide.
She sees the how the shattering of city neighborhoods and the closing of neighborhood schools is related to capital accumulation, gentrification and the pathological white supremacy still pushed by an economic elite to seize c...more
She sees the how the shattering of city neighborhoods and the closing of neighborhood schools is related to capital accumulation, gentrification and the pathological white supremacy still pushed by an economic elite to seize c...more
Anyone who wants to understand more of how are public schools are being turned into competitive businesses at the expense of low-income, impoverished citizens should read this book. It's not an easy read and far too much information to process in one sitting. But it does confirm how our society is moving away from humanism towards corporate greed and elitism. The last chapter does instill a little gleam of hope, but I'm afraid on the whole we have a long way to go.
This book was on track for a 5 star rating up until the last chapter. Lipman does an amazing job of laying out how Chicago has been transformed by a neoliberal agenda from both liberals and conservatives and the consequences of this on the city and on education. The chapter on corporate philanthrophy and general coverage of charter schools and the illusion of "market choice" and "consumerism" in regards to education is particularly compelling. The solution Lipman offers, however, is a bit of a l...more
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