Toward a New Common School Movement

<p><em>Toward a New Common School Movement</em> is a bold and urgent call to action.The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering corruption and educational inequalities.<em>Toward a New Common School Movement</em> suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but represent a broader redistribution of control over social life-that is the enclosure of the global commons. This condition requires far more than a liberal defense of public schooling. It requires recovering elements of the radical progressive educational tradition while generating a new language of the common suitable to the unique challenges of the global era. <em>Toward a New Common School Movement</em> traces the history of struggles over public schooling in the United States and provides a set of ethical principles for enacting the commons in educational policy finance labor curriculum and pedagogy. Ultimately it argues for global educational struggles in common for a just and sustainable future beyond the crises of neoliberalism and predatory capitalism.</p>