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Calling out the corporate program to deform schools: Educational Justice reviewed by Counterfire

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Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut
287 pp; $23 pbk, ISBN 9781583676134
By Howard Ryan

Reviewed by Adam Tomes

“Howard Ryan is an educationalist and journalist, who has written a handbook that offers ‘theory, strategy and organizing case studies to inform and inspire those who are working to rebuild public education and put an end to the corporate occupation of our schools’. The book can be read as a whole, or can be used as a reference guide to explore some key ideas, as the book is neatly divided up into sections. The first section looks at the corporate assault on schools and aims to uncover the underlying aims, the second section looks at case studies of resistance to the corporate assault, whilst the final section introduces case studies of education organising that looks to change the curriculum and teaching within schools to create a more democratic form of education….”

Read the review at Counterfire

Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut

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