School Reform in a Global Society

By William E. Segall

School Reform in a Global Society is about how a silent, wealthy upper class in the United States waited until the end of the Twentieth Century to transform America into something it once was during the Age of the Robber Barons. Known today as neoliberals, this nostalgic elite, craving the return of the unregulated capitalism of the nineteenth century, see themselves as the new Victorian imperialists. Using the term globalization to mean economic colonialism, their corporate policies force Third World governments, parents and children alike to accept schooling that disregards and damages their cultures. Even in the United States they discovered they could not create their nineteenth century imperial nirvana without first forcing schools to develop an obedient working class that swore allegiance to them. This social history of schools, capitalism, colonialism and its child named globalization is about how those who crave wealth and power are willing to gamble away the lives of American youth to satisfy their dreams of past economic glory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742524612
• ISBN13: 9780742524613
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Terrific Insight

This work provides the average reader a look into the economic and political forces driving global education reform. Segall relates through situational narrative the dynamics of neoliberal and neconservative policy initiatives and how that political allience is ultimately threatening our social fabric.