Alex Standish is a voice for a liberal vision of education in response to the rise of moralising and other instrumental aims for the curriculum (environmentalism, cultural diversity, tolerance, key skills). He has written about the transition to socio-political aims in geography and is currently researching the rise of global education as an approach that is transforming the nature of schooling in England and the USA. He writes about educational and geographical issues (including immigration) for publications including spiked and the Times Educational Supplement. He is a lecturer in geography and coordinator of secondary education programmes in the School of Arts and Sciences at Western Connecticut State University. Standish received his Phd in geography from Rutgers University. He taught in primary and secondary schools in the south of England for ten years before moving to the USA.