Christopher Tienken, Associate Professor of K-12 Education Leadership, Management, and Policy, released his eighth book, an edited volume with Professor Carol Mullen from Virginia Tech University, titled The Risky Business of Education Policy. The book was published by Routledge in association with the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society of Education. Tienken and Mullen assembled an all-star team of 10 authors to deliver focused commentary and analysis on some of the most pressing policy challenges facing PK-12 public school leaders.

The book shares insights and makes recommendations from leading scholars on ways to ponder, navigate, and challenge serious policy issues. Each of the nine chapters presents important policy topics and critical analysis of the topics from the authorial perspective of experienced educators leading the preparation of future school leaders and teachers.

The chapters cover a wide range of pressing policy issues that educators must navigate: Neoliberalism as a Policy Ventriloquist: Deconstructing the Discourse of Corporate America for Its Public Schools, by Fenwick W. English; Corporate Networks' Grip on the Public School Sector and Education Policy, by Carol A. Mullen; Threats to Meaningful Reform of Civic Education, by Patricia H. Hinchey and Pamela J. Konkol; Brown versus Board Did Not Work: Finding a New Pathway to Educational Justice, by Ryan W. Coughlan; Charter Schools' Impact on Public Education: Theory versus Reality, by Julia Sass Rubin and Mark Weber; OECD, PISA, and Globalization: The Influence of the International Assessment Regime, by Svein Sjøberg; Students as the Missing Actor in Education Reform, by Yong Zhao and Jim Watterston; “We Come from Everywhere”: Innovating Bi/Multilingual Principal Preparation Programs, by Soribel Genao; and Evaluating the Different SIDES of Education Policies: A Practical Policy Analysis Framework for School Leaders, by Christopher H. Tienken.

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