Recognized since its publication 18 months ago as one of the
most original and influential books on education in America
of the past decade, Gene Glass's "Fertilizers, Pills &
Magnetic Strips: The Fate of Public Education in America"
is being offered by IAP Inc. in open access as a service to
educators everywhere.
Go online to http://infoagepub.com/glass-chapter-10 and read
the concluding chapter to Glass's analysis of where public
education is headed in the 21st Century.
"This is the most original book about education in
years."
~ Ernest R. House, University of Colorado,
Boulder; Harold E. Lasswell Award Recipient
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Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic Strips:
The Fate of Public Education in America
Glass shows how the central education policy
debates at the start of the 21st century (vouchers,
charter schools, tax credits, high-stakes testing,
bilingual education) are actually about two underlying
issues: how can the costs of public education be cut,
and how can the education of the White middle-class
be "quasi-privatized" at public expense? Working from
the demographic realities of the past thirty years, he
projects a challenging and disturbing future for public
education in America.
REVIEWS
"This is the first credible book of the 21st century to
anticipate the future of public education."
~ David C. Berliner, Former President of the
American Educational Research Association;
Author of The Manufactured Crisis
"He challenges the received view of the ordinary education
debates, revealing what lies behind the stale and superficial
arguments."
~Kevin Welner, Director, Education and the
Public Interest Center
"...a wake up call to America about the disastrous
consequences of current policies that shortchange the
education of the coming majority "Latinos and other
'minority' students" on whom the very future of the
nation rests."
~ Patricia Gándara, University of California,
Los Angeles; Co-Director, The Civil Rights
Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles
"The book makes such impressive sense that one has
to believe that its clarity, command of the facts, eye
for absurdity, and concern for justice will garner
greater support for public education as a common and
noble cause."
~ John Willinsky, Stanford University;
Author of The Access Principle: The Case for
Open Access to Research and Scholarship
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