While focused on ideologies and policies that affect compulsory schooling, the book also reviews ideological shifts which impact higher education. Those who run colleges and universities need to be attuned to the shifts in thinking taking place in relation to education at all levels - the global education reform movement, neoliberalism, and "work-ready" education are all part of the current conversation amongst Canadian Ministers of Education, including Ministers with responsibility for higher education. Getting beneath the surface and understanding the determinants of policy are key to designing appropriate responses. This book helps clarify (in so far as this is possible) just what is happening in relation to the politics of education.