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Educational Reform in the Age of Neoliberalism

A Call for a Focused, Empirically-Supported, Collective Response

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Neoliberalizing Educational Reform

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When David Harvey published A Brief History of Neoliberalism nearly a decade ago, it quickly became one of the most cited social science works of all time. The book was important for a number of reasons. It advanced a coherent definition of a previously nebulous and abstruse economic term.

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Sturges, K.M. (2015). Educational Reform in the Age of Neoliberalism. In: Sturges, K.M. (eds) Neoliberalizing Educational Reform. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-977-7_1

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