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,...

Die Autoren setzen sich systematisch mit den Leitbildern, verkürzten Problembeschreibungen und ideologisierten Schuldzuweisungen neoliberaler Hochschulpolitik auseinander und unterziehen diese einer grundsätzlichen Kritik. Der auch von ihnen nicht bestrittene krisenhafte Zustand der...

The new status of money -- Prestige, money, and the ends of higher education -- Learning for dollars -- Humanities and the market-model university -- The destruction of reading -- Means and ends, signs and symbols -- Packaging ethics -- Leading the self into the world -- Science, art, and...