Mark Hlavacik is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform.

“Hlavacik correctly recognizes that political conflict over education is both inevitable and unavoidable in large, diverse, and complex societies like ours. The problem is not that Americans disagree about what should be taught in schools; the problem is the manner in which we have conducted these disagreements over the course of the last half-century. In his analysis of episode after episode of education culture war, Hlavacik reveals how the rhetoric that suffuses these disputes is neither new nor enlightening. Instead, the battles are tired, stale distractions from the evergreen work of debating and deliberating over how best to educate the next generation.”

• Introduction: Education’s Culture of ConflictChapter 1: The Fall of Man: A Course of StudyChapter 2: Allan Bloom’s Rotten Rhetoric of ExposéChapter 3: Lynne Cheney’s Exposé of Political CorrectnessChapter 4: The Common Core MeltdownChapter 5: The Battle of 1619Conclusion: Resisting Education’s Culture of ConflictAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Mark Hlavacik is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform.

“Hlavacik correctly recognizes that political conflict over education is both inevitable and unavoidable in large, diverse, and complex societies like ours. The problem is not that Americans disagree about what should be taught in schools; the problem is the manner in which we have conducted these disagreements over the course of the last half-century. In his analysis of episode after episode of education culture war, Hlavacik reveals how the rhetoric that suffuses these disputes is neither new nor enlightening. Instead, the battles are tired, stale distractions from the evergreen work of debating and deliberating over how best to educate the next generation.”

• Introduction: Education’s Culture of ConflictChapter 1: The Fall of Man: A Course of StudyChapter 2: Allan Bloom’s Rotten Rhetoric of ExposéChapter 3: Lynne Cheney’s Exposé of Political CorrectnessChapter 4: The Common Core MeltdownChapter 5: The Battle of 1619Conclusion: Resisting Education’s Culture of ConflictAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Mark Hlavacik is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform.

“Hlavacik correctly recognizes that political conflict over education is both inevitable and unavoidable in large, diverse, and complex societies like ours. The problem is not that Americans disagree about what should be taught in schools; the problem is the manner in which we have conducted these disagreements over the course of the last half-century. In his analysis of episode after episode of education culture war, Hlavacik reveals how the rhetoric that suffuses these disputes is neither new nor enlightening. Instead, the battles are tired, stale distractions from the evergreen work of debating and deliberating over how best to educate the next generation.”

• Introduction: Education’s Culture of ConflictChapter 1: The Fall of Man: A Course of StudyChapter 2: Allan Bloom’s Rotten Rhetoric of ExposéChapter 3: Lynne Cheney’s Exposé of Political CorrectnessChapter 4: The Common Core MeltdownChapter 5: The Battle of 1619Conclusion: Resisting Education’s Culture of ConflictAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex