Much educational research today is focused on assessing reforms that are intended to create equal opportunity for all students. Many current policies aim at concentrating extra resources on the disadvantaged. The state-of-the-art research in Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem suggests,...

This book explores the complex and various forms that privatization of education takes on a global scale at different ages of schooling. Through the spread of neoliberal policies in education both in the global North and the global South, the book suggests that this process is leading to new...

"Hans Holbein's Triumphs (1532-1534), commissioned for the headquarters of the Hanseatic League in London and Kano Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in Japan in 1543 are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth, speculation, exploitation, poverty, curiosity,...

The rise of the ICU, 1919-27 -- Garveyism and the ICU, 1920-1927 -- The ICU and the segregation state, 1921-27 -- The communists and the ICU, 1923-28 -- The ICU and International socialism, 1927-29 -- Moderates and the ICU, 1924-1928 -- The fragmentation of the ICU, 1928-1930 -- Legacies of the ICU.