"A guide to the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes"-- Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1: What's at stake and why should anyone care? -- Chapter 2: Why are we always fighting about schools? -- Chapter 3: Why are we fighting about schools now? -- Chapter 4: What's religion got to do with it? -- Chapter 5: What's really behind the push for parental rights? -- Chapter 6: What's so bad about funding students, not systems? -- Chapter 7: Democracy is not a spectator sport -- Chapter 8: Reclaiming education as a public good.