State and Schools argues that the American educational model represents a third way of organizing the provision of schooling, and that this accounts for some of its strengths as well as some of its weaknesses. Charles L. Glenn looks closely at the tradition of democratic localism in the management of schooling, and the powerful and anti-democratic effect of the emerging education 'profession, ' which has in some respects the characteristics of a religious movement more than of a true profession.
A sweeping chronological survey, State and Schools includes chapters on the colonial...
State and Schools argues that the American educational model represents a third way of organizing the provision of schooling, and that this account...
