“It’s a story that needs telling and this book does that very readably! It’s especially useful to those who may disagree with its underlying viewpoint. Especially at this time of peril we need to understand the connections—and misconnections—between schools and democracy!”

Deborah Meier, Leader in Holistic Reform in Urban Public Education

“For decades the forces of neoliberalism have sought to make education into a competitive marketplace, turning teaching and learning into a product for profit. The Commodification of American Education not only highlights how this has transformed us as people and attacked our very identities, it also shows how we can resist it through tactics of play, unionization, and the reclamation of ourselves as learners. In The Commodification of American Education, editors Brewer and Harman have offered a powerful collection to help us all navigate and survive these troubling times.”

Wayne Au, Ph.D., Professor, University of Washington Bothell Editor, Rethinking Schools, Teaching for Black Lives, and author of "A Marxist Education"

“This book not only problematizes the issues across the landscape of education to inform the reader, but it also inspires action. The editors open the discussion by relaying that a resistance movement is challenging the neoliberal paradigm and is opposing the commodification of students and teachers. They urge the reader to bring schools ‘under the care of professional teachers rather than leaving it in the hands of people who have never taught students.’ Readers will come away with not only with a better understanding of alternatives to neoliberal education reform, but will also glean, in each chapter, more humane ways forward for children, their families, and communities.”

Julian Vasquez Heilig, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, University of Kentucky