Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780807766095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 346 str.

David C. Berliner; Carl Hermanns

Spis treści

• 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 Vazquez 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