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EDITED BY JEFF BALE AND SARAH KNOPP
EDUC TION NDC PIT LISM
STRUGGLES FOR LE RNING ND LIBER TION
“At a time when the capitalist class and their corporate allies in the media have waged an all-out assault on teachers, students, and public education,
Education and Capitalism 
responds by speaking truth to power.…Drawing from the lived experiences of theeditors and their students, and informed by cutting edge sociopolitical critique,
Education and Capitalism 
clears the path for new understanding of the current assault on public schooling and points towards important directions if we are to save it.”
—Peter McLaren, author of
Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution 
In the first 
decade of the twenty-first century, a conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates about what’s wrong with ourschools and how to fix them. In each case, those solutions scapegoat teachers, vilify our unions, and promise more private control and market mentality as the answer. In each case, students lose—especially students of color and the children of the working class and the poor.This book, written by teacher activists, speaks back to that elite consensus. It draws on the ideas and experiences of social  justice educators concerned with fighting against racism and for equality, and those of activists oriented on recapturing the radical roots of the labor movement. Informed by a revolutionary vision of pedagogy, schools, and education, it paints a radicalcritique of education in Corporate America, past and present, and contributes to a vision of alternatives for education and liberation. Inside are essays that trace Marxist theories of education under capitalism; outline the historical educational experiences of emergent bilingual and African American students; recap the history of teachers’ unions; analyze the neoliberalattack on public schools under Obama; critically appraise Paolo Freire’s legacy; and make the historical link between social revolution and struggles for literacy.
Sarah Knopp
is a public high school teacher in Los Angeles and an activist with United Teachers Los Angeles.
 Jeff Bale
is assistant professor of second language education at Michigan State University. Their work has appeared in
Rethinking Schools 
,
International Socialist Review 
, and
CounterPunch
.
Available Fall 2011
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Trade paper
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$17.00
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220 pages
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ISBN: 9781608461646
Published by Haymarket Books | www.haymarketbooks.org
| info@haymarketbooks.org | 773-583-7884For review or desk copies, contact Sarah Macaraeg, sarah@haymarketbooks.org“This book is a breath of fresh air! The chapters take on central issues in education with a clear vision of what could be. Class,race, language and culture become not just educational 'problems,'but tools with which to rethink the future. A stellar addition to booksin our field.”
—Jean Anyon, author of
Marx and Education 
FORTHCOMING FALL 2011

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