Download or read book Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools written by Mary Lee Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain.