The Education Debate

In The Education Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know, David Kirp and Kevin Macpherson provide a balanced and accessible overview of the key policy and practice issues in pre k-12 education today. They expose the fault lines of the major debates and focus on equity of resources and opportunities and the tensions between market and bureaucratic mechanisms to drive school improvement. The Education Debate is a primer for concerned parents, educational policymakers and administrators, and undergraduate and graduate students in education courses who need a solid grasp of the major debates in contemporary education policy.