Helen Baxendale on The Lost Decade

“The Lost Decade is a tale told more in sorrow than in anger, and it is all the more devastating for its detached accounting of the indelible and avoidable damage wrought by the ideological excesses of recent years. … The first step in treating any pathology is to identify the problem. Steven Wilson has delivered a brave and exacting diagnosis. His chapter-length evisceration of the “five evasions” that deform contemporary American schooling—the therapeutic, instrumental, technological, futuristic, and political—should be mandated reading for trainee teachers and grant officers.” 

~  Helen Baxendale, writer and education researcher