Joel Spring

Joel Spring is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation and, for many years, lived at times on an island off the coast of Sitka, Alaska. He is the author of A Perfect Life, An All-American Family, and Common Core: A Story of School Terrorism. Joel has also authored numerous academic texts on American and global school policies, including The Economization of Education; Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization-the Selected Works of Joel Spring; and Education Networks: Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind, among others. His textbook American Education is in its sixteenth edition.