Author: Educational Policies Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Policies for Education in American Democracy
Author: Educational Policies Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Structure and Administration of Education in American Democracy
Author: Educational Policies Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Schoolhouse Burning
Author: Derek W. Black
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541774388
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself. Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate, shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. Schoolhouse Burningis grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how the nation, in its infancy, built itself around public education and, following the Civil War, enshrined education as a constitutional right that forever changed the trajectory of our democracy. Public education, alongside the right to vote, was the cornerstone of the recovery of the war-torn nation. Today's current schooling trends -- the declining commitment to properly fund public education and the well-financed political agenda to expand vouchers and charter schools -- present a major assault on the democratic norms that public education represents and risk undermining one of the unique accomplishments of American society.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541774388
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself. Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate, shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. Schoolhouse Burningis grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how the nation, in its infancy, built itself around public education and, following the Civil War, enshrined education as a constitutional right that forever changed the trajectory of our democracy. Public education, alongside the right to vote, was the cornerstone of the recovery of the war-torn nation. Today's current schooling trends -- the declining commitment to properly fund public education and the well-financed political agenda to expand vouchers and charter schools -- present a major assault on the democratic norms that public education represents and risk undermining one of the unique accomplishments of American society.
Public Education
Author: David C. Berliner
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807766097
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"Twenty-eight eminent essayists remind our nations parents, educators, school board members and politicians that our democracy is in jeopardy and that our nation's system of free universal public education is also under attack. If that attack succeeds, American democracy itself would be further imperiled. That is because American democracy rests on a belief that the power of our government comes from the people, and the diffusion of knowledge and the enlightenment of the people has been a cornerstone of our democracy since the founding of our republic. America's public schools, therefore, have a special mandate"--
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807766097
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"Twenty-eight eminent essayists remind our nations parents, educators, school board members and politicians that our democracy is in jeopardy and that our nation's system of free universal public education is also under attack. If that attack succeeds, American democracy itself would be further imperiled. That is because American democracy rests on a belief that the power of our government comes from the people, and the diffusion of knowledge and the enlightenment of the people has been a cornerstone of our democracy since the founding of our republic. America's public schools, therefore, have a special mandate"--
The Education of Free Men in American Democracy
Author: Educational Policies Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Higher Education for American Democracy
Author: United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher:
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Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Unique Function of Education in American Democracy
Author: Educational Policies Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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The Fight for Local Control
Author: Campbell F. Scribner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501704117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those values was shifting and selective. In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law. Scribner's account unfolds on the metropolitan fringe, where rapid suburbanization overlapped with the consolidation of thousands of small rural schools. Rural residents initially clashed with their new neighbors, but by the 1960s the groups had rallied to resist government oversight. What began as residual opposition to school consolidation would transform into campaigns against race-based busing, unionized teachers, tax equalization, and secular curriculum. In case after case, suburban conservatives carved out new rights for local autonomy, stifling equal educational opportunity. Yet Scribner also provides insight into why many conservatives have since abandoned localism for policies that stress school choice and federal accountability. In the 1970s, as new battles arose over unions, textbooks, and taxes, districts on the rural-suburban fringe became the first to assert individual choice in the form of school vouchers, religious exemptions, and a marketplace model of education. At the same time, they began to embrace tax limitation and standardized testing, policies that checked educational bureaucracy but bypassed local school boards. The effect, Scribner concludes, has been to reinforce inequalities between districts while weakening participatory government within them, keeping the worst aspects of local control in place while forfeiting its virtues.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501704117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those values was shifting and selective. In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law. Scribner's account unfolds on the metropolitan fringe, where rapid suburbanization overlapped with the consolidation of thousands of small rural schools. Rural residents initially clashed with their new neighbors, but by the 1960s the groups had rallied to resist government oversight. What began as residual opposition to school consolidation would transform into campaigns against race-based busing, unionized teachers, tax equalization, and secular curriculum. In case after case, suburban conservatives carved out new rights for local autonomy, stifling equal educational opportunity. Yet Scribner also provides insight into why many conservatives have since abandoned localism for policies that stress school choice and federal accountability. In the 1970s, as new battles arose over unions, textbooks, and taxes, districts on the rural-suburban fringe became the first to assert individual choice in the form of school vouchers, religious exemptions, and a marketplace model of education. At the same time, they began to embrace tax limitation and standardized testing, policies that checked educational bureaucracy but bypassed local school boards. The effect, Scribner concludes, has been to reinforce inequalities between districts while weakening participatory government within them, keeping the worst aspects of local control in place while forfeiting its virtues.
EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Author: Educational Policies Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Education and the Defense of American Democracy
Author: Educational Policies Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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