Michael W. Apple's critical writings have been influential throughout the world. This
collection brings together many of his essays on curriculum evaluation and critical
educational and cultural theory. In clear and unmystified prose these essays enhance our
understanding of how thoroughly political educational policies and practices actually are. In
the process he illuminates the histories and realities of class race and gender in
education. Combining work written for a broad and general audience with that aimed at those who
are already grounded in the multiple traditions of critical educational studies Apple's unique
voice - nuanced passionate and clear - comes through.
