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The end of public school / Jack Schneider + Jennifer Berkshire

Nov 18 2020
Episode 1263

 

Jack Schneider, Jennifer Berkshire

Inside the libertarian plot to tear down public education.

Historian Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire explore the right's systematic, decades-long attack on public schools - through the defunding of districtions and demoralizing students, educators and parents - in partnership with a neoliberal Democratic Party willing to sell out children and workers for the same libertarian elites.

Jack and Jennifer are authors of the book A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School from The New Press.