Publicization: How public and private interests can reinvent education for the common good

The average American student spends 73,860 minutes in compulsory education in a year—nearly a million minutes from kindergarten through graduation. At the heart of Jonathan Gyurko’s new book, Publicization , is the central question: What is the purpose of the almost 1 million minutes the American student spends being educated? He posits that a more clearly defined “public education” will serve as a clearer contrast in the face of the “privatization” project that has impacted it for the past 60 years. Publicization fills this void by issuing a new term that functions both as a concept and a process. According to Gyurko, the failure to define the public pursuit of education has led to its purpose being misunderstood and, more troublingly, its value inadequately defended. Ultimately, the goal of this book’s newly rethought definition