Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro

This book warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion, and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church, and ideology are combining to undermine public schools. The Stupid Country is not a one-sided defence of public education. But it challenges readers to consider whether the current path risks the health of public schools and everything they have created - prosperity, unity, stability - even, perhaps, democracy.

Pub Date: 2008 ISBN: PAPER:    0-86840-806-9    978-0-86840-806-4 Price: Paper: $26.00s Subject Listing: Education, Australia Bibliographic information: 256 pp., 6 x 9 in. Distributed for: UNSW Press Territorial rights: North American rights only