Michael Fabricant: 4 books

Book cover of Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education
by Michael Fabricant, Michelle Fine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors do not defend the public school system, which for decades has failed primarily poor children of color.  Instead, they use empirical evidence...
Book cover of Austerity Blues

Austerity Blues

Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

by Michael Fabricant, Stephen Brier
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, exacerbating...
Book cover of Changing Politics of Education

Changing Politics of Education

Privitization and the Dispossessed Lives Left Behind

by Michael Fabricant, Michelle Fine
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

The authors persuasively argue that the present cascade of reforms to public education is a consequence of a larger intention to shrink government. The startling result is that more of public education's assets and resources are moving to the private sector and to the prison industrial complex. Drawing...
Book cover of The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work
by Michael Fabricant, Steve F. Burghardt, Irwin Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

This book has emerged in response to social service workers' vivid descriptions of changes in the practice of their craft during the past 15 years and to the scanty literature that addressed their concerns. Few works have attempted to explore the interplay between the recent broader changes affecting...
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