Anyone who is touched by public education - teachers,
administrators, teacher-educators, students, parents, politicians,
pundits, and citizens - ought to read this book, a revamped and
updated second edition. It will speak to educators, policymakers
and citizens who are concerned about the future of education and
its relation to a robust, participatory democracy. The perspectives
offered by a wonderfully diverse collection of contributors provide
a glimpse into the complex, multilayered factors that shape, and
are shaped by, education institutions today. The analyses presented
in this text are critical of how globalization and neoliberalism
exert increasing levels of control over the public institutions
meant to support the common good. Readers of this book will be well
prepared to participate in the dialogue that will influence the
future of public education in United States, and beyond - a
dialogue that must seek the kind of change that represents hope for
all students. As for the question contained in the title of the
book - The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education: Can
Hope (Still) Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? (Second Edition) -,
Carr and Porfilio develop a framework that integrates the work of
the contributors, including Christine Sleeter and Dennis Carlson,
who wrote the original forward and afterword respectively, and the
updated ones written by Paul Street, Peter Mclaren and Dennis
Carlson, which problematize how the Obama administration has
presented an extremely constrained, conservative notion of change
in and through education. The rhetoric has not been matched by
meaningful, tangible, transformative proposals, policies and
programs aimed at transformative change, and now fully into a
second mandate this second edition of the book is able to more
substantively provide a vigorous critique of the contemporary
educational and political landscape. There are many reasons for
this, and, according to the contributors to this book, it is clear
that neoliberalism is a major obstacle to stimulating the hope that
so many have been hoping for. Addressing systemic inequities
embedded within neoliberalism, Carr and Porfilio argue, is key to
achieving the hope so brilliantly presented by Obama during the
campaign that brought him to the presidency.
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