Manufactured Outrage: The Conservative Industrial Complex's War on Education and How to Fight Back

A powerful and urgently needed examination of the Conservative Industrial Complex (CIC)'s attack on public education, with practical strategies to push back and uphold education as a democratic, public good Public education is under attack.At school board meetings, in the media, and in the political sphere, there is a growing wave of anti-public education sentiment and a tendency to twist such concepts as Critical Race Theory, multiculturalism, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into dog whistles for the supposed brainwashing of students.In Manufactured Outrage, the authors provide an overview of the CIC-a coordinated network of conservative groups that seeks to dismantle our public education system-and explore how educators can push back against harmful education policy agendas. The past few years have seen an avalanche of conservative education bills across the country.Dozens of states have rolled back protections for minoritized students, implemented book bans and instituted