Christopher A. Lubienski is a professor of education policy at Indiana University Bloomington. He holds a BS in history from Northern Michigan University (1989), an MA in History from Michigan State University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Social Analysis from Michigan State University (1999). He is the co-author of The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools (Chicago, 2015) which received the 2015 Prose Award for the Education Theory from the American Publishers Association, and Privatization and the Education of Marginalized Children: Policies, Impacts, and Global Lessons (Routledge, 2017), among others.