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Public Education

Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy
Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2021
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6610-1 (ISBN)
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Above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare youth to be informed citizens and active, constructive participants in the democratic process. These essayists, criticizing as well as lauding the US educational system, believe that such a goal is best accomplished through a high-quality, public, free system of schooling.
In this important collection, eminent education scholars and practitioners remind us that our nation’s system of free universal public education is under attack, putting our very democracy in jeopardy. Over and above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare our youth to be informed citizens and active, constructive participants in the democratic process. These essayists, criticizing as well as lauding our educational system, believe that such a goal is best accomplished through a high-quality, public, and free system of schooling designed to serve all our children without regard to race, religion, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, (dis)ability, social class, citizenship status, or language. In the 100th anniversary year of the Horace Mann League, these thought leaders in education take stock of enduring principles, current dilemmas, and important forward directions. With profiteers growing in numbers and seeking to take advantage of systemic breakdowns, this book will serve as a rousing defense of our public schools for our nation’s educators, parents, school board members, and politicians.


Book Features:




Reminds all Americans of the essential roles that schools serve in contemporary society, beyond simply instilling a prescribed curriculum.
Presents a counterpoint to those who promote private or charter schooling at the expense of genuine public schools.
Paints a complex and multi-faceted portrait of our public education system and provides a set of diverse and provocative remedies for many pressing contemporary problems of public schooling.

David C. Berliner is Regents Professor Emeritus and Carl Hermanns is a clinical associate professor, both at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.

Chapters and Contributors:

In Times of Crisis, Why We Need Public Schools, William J. Mathis

A Brief History of Public Education, Diane Ravitch

Values and Education Policy, Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd

Public Schooling as Social Welfare, David F. Labaree

Reflections on the Public School and the Social Fabric, Mike Rose

Our Schools and Our Towns Belong to Each Other, Peter Greene

The Great Equalizer of the Conditions of (Humanity): How Transformative can Schools be When Society Itself Remains Inequitable and Quarrelsome?, Peter Smagorinsky

The Mythical Great Equalizer School System: Exploring the Potential to Make It Real, Kevin Welner

Democracy’s Wobbly Cornerstone: Seeking to be the “Great Equalizer” in a Deeply Unequal Culture, Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton

One Puerto Rican’s Reflections on What Might Have Been, Sonia Nieto

Necessary But Insufficient: Why Public Schooling Alone Cannot Equalize, Prudence Carter

Public Education for the Public Good: Black Teachers and Teaching, H. Richard Milner IV

Making the Common School Truly Common: Black Americans’ Long and Unfinished Fight for Integrated Schools, Jeanne M. Powers

We Know Better and Must Do Better, Martin Brooks

If Democracy is Such a Great Idea, Why Don’t Schools Practice it More?, Deborah Meier

The Role of Public Schools in the Preparation of Young People to Engage in Civic Reasoning and Discourse, Carol D. Lee

Tensions Between Teacher Professionalism and Authentic Community Voice in Public Schools Serving Nondominant Communities,, Ken Zeichner

Horace Mann and a New Common Good, Joshua P. Starr

Horace and George and Sitkala-Sa: Reimagining Experimentation, Jacqueline Grennon Brooks

Public School Funding and the “Reform” Distraction , Mark Weber

Education Is Our Only Political Safety, James Harvey

Is There Still a Public for Public Education?, Gloria Ladson-Billings

Public Education at a Crossroads: Will Horace Mann's Common School Survive the Era of Choice?, Carol Corbett Burris

What’s Not to Like about Private Schools?, Jack Jennings

Scrutinizing the School Choice Equity Ethos for Black Parents, Julian Vasquez Heilig

The Scandalous History of Schools That Receive Public Financing But Do Not Accept the Public’s Right of Oversight, David C. Berliner

Can Common Public Schooling Save the Republic?, D. C. Phillips

Public Schools and Acting Against the Threats to Democracy , Michael W. Apple

A New Deal for Public Schools, William Ayers

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 235 mm
Gewicht 699 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-8077-6610-0 / 0807766100
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-6610-1 / 9780807766101
Zustand Neuware
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