This book explores school educational policy through the lens of moral panic theory at a theoretical level, and through a select history of moral panics in school education during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Moral panics and school education policy is a topic that has for some time been in need of serious study. This book goes a long way towards addressing the deficit and helps us examine education through a new lens. It should stimulate much debate as it delivers a perspective that unusual, stimulating and scholarly. Professor Tom O'Donoghue, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia