Bibliograph

The public schools, Susan Fuhrman, Marvin Lazerson, editors

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The public schools, Susan Fuhrman, Marvin Lazerson, editors

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

The public schools

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bibliography

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57344106

Responsibility statement

Susan Fuhrman, Marvin Lazerson, editors

Review

"This volume is a collection of essays by leading scholars and educators that address the major challenges facing public education and suggest changes to keep the institution vital to the maintenance of an informed citizenry. Each chapter explores the ways in which the public schools are linked to the preparation of citizens, debates the concerns and disagreements, and proposes the possibilities for improvement. These proposals include recommendations that more schools make institutional commitments to civic participation in order to produce more civic-minded individuals. Further, international public school systems are analyzed, and some of their methods are considered for adoption into the American model."--Jacket

Series statement

Institutions of American democracy series

Table Of Contents

Patriotic purposes: public schools and the education of citizens / Julie Reuben -- The governance of public education / Thomas Corcoran and Margaret Goertz -- The politics of polarization: education debates in the Uited States / William Galston -- Schooling citizens for evolving democracies / Bruce Fuller and Arun Rasiah -- Classroom deliberations / Katherine Simon -- The state of civic education: preparing citizens in an era of accountability / Michael C. Johanek and John Puckett -- Working in schools / Susan Moore Johnson -- Youth, media, and citizenship / John Merrow -- Civic capacity: what, why, and from whence / Clarence N. Stone -- The education of democratic citizens: citizen mobilization and public education / Wendy D. Puriefoy -- The elusive ideal: civic learning and higher education / Matthew Hartley and Elizabeth Hollander -- Agency, reciprocity, and accountability in democratic education / Richard F. Elmore -- Demographic change and democratic education / Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick -- School choice and the democratic ideal of free common schools / Paul R Dimond -- Afterword: democratic disagreement and civic education / Amy Gutmann

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