"Stephen Ball provides a substantive account of current education policy trends and offers a way to make sense of what is happening to our experience of education, as learners, as teachers, as parents and as citizens."@en
"Stephen Ball provides a substantive account of current education policy trends and offers a way to make sense of what is happening to our experience of education, as learners, as teachers, as parents and as citizens."
"This is enthralling book, Stephen J. Ball guides us through the flood of government initiatives and policies that have been introduced over the past 20 years, including beacon schools, the academies programme, parental choice, foundation schools, faith schools and teaching standards. He looks at the politics and these policy interventions and how they have changed the face of education, 'joining up' policy within a broader framework of initiatives, turning children into 'learners' and parents into 'consumers'."
"This is a book for students who need a guide to the education debate. Besides examining general trends in education policy, the book concentrates on school policies and politics, with asides to and examples from other sectors where relevant."

The education debate