Capital, power, and education: “Dark Money” and the politics of common-sense. A critical essay review of Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the Radical Right

Authors

  • Eleni Schirmer University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Michael W. Apple University of Wisconsin-Madison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.2145

Author Biographies

Eleni Schirmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Eleni Schirmer is a doctoral candidate and researcher in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She is a union activist and writer who has published in The Educational Forum, The Progressive, Jacobin, and other journals and is the author as well of a number of chapters on the politics of educational policy and rightist movements.

Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He has written extensively on the relationship among power, knowledge, and education and on the politics of educational reform.  Among his recent books are: Can Education Change Society? (2013); Knowledge, Power, and Education (2013); and The Strong State and Curriculum Reform (2016), with Leonel Lim.

References

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Apple, M. W., Au, W., & Gandin, L. A. (Ed.). (2009). The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education. New York: Routledge.

Ferguson, T. (1995). Golden rule: The investment theory of party competition and the logic of money-driven political systems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Reckhow, S., & Snyder, J. W. (2014). The expanding role of philanthropy in education politics. Educational Researcher, 43(4), 186–195. doi:10.3102/0013189X14536607

Schirmer, E., & Apple, M. W. (2016). Teachers, School Boards, and the Power of Money: How the Right Wins at the Local Level. The Educational Forum, 80(2), 137–153.

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Published

2016-09-28

How to Cite

Schirmer, E., & Apple, M. W. (2016). Capital, power, and education: “Dark Money” and the politics of common-sense. A critical essay review of Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the Radical Right. Education Review, 23. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.2145

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Vol. 23 (2016)

Section

Book reviews

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