Interested in the ethical and political responsibilities on those who care about education, The Struggle for Democracy in Education interrogates conflicting models of democratic education and asks us to confront both progressive and retrogressive forces to ask what we can do to ensure that education created is worthy of its name.

Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Distinguished Professor of Education at Rowan University.

Acknowledgments

1 The Struggle for Democracy in Education

2 The Contradictions of a Critically Democratic School

3 Struggling for the Local: Money, Power, and the Possibilities of Victories in the Politics of Education

4 How "Democracy" Can Lead to Inequality: Class Relations and the Realities of Educational Reform

5 Can Critical Democracy Last? Porto Alegre and the Struggle for "Thick" Democracy in Education

6 The Struggle Continues: Lessons Learned and What Can Be Done

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