Thoroughly revised throughout, this new edition brings McLaren's popular textbook into the Obama era and to the new debates on Common Core Standards and online education. The book is renowned for its clear, provocative classroom narratives and its coverage of political, economic, and social factors that are undervalued in other educational textbooks. An international committee of experts ranked Life in Schools among the top twelve education books in the world. It is a book that sparked a revolution in the way we think about urban education.