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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jennifer L Hochschild; Nathan B Scovronick |
| ISBN: | 0195152786 9780195152784 |
| OCLC Number: | 50280018 |
| Description: | xii, 301 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | What Americans want from public schools -- School desegregation -- School finance reform -- School reform -- Choice -- Separation and inclusion -- Challenging the American dream -- Public schools in the new America. |
| Responsibility: | Jennifer L. Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick. |
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<br>"Addresses nearly every educational policy issue of importance and brings a welcome balance and fairness to the debate. In their preface, they acknowledge that they began on opposite sides of several arguments. Their book, as a consequence, has helpful suggestions as to how those of us involved in educational issues can get past our fondness for beating up on anyone who disagrees with us on choice or testing or teaching styles. Among recent books on education, only one other book is as helpful to readers trying to maneuver their way through the current cafeteria food-fight of conflicting claims."--Washington Post<p><br>"This well-researched, up-to-date and balanced look at hot-button issues examines all sides of the debates while not losing sight of the democratic principles of schooling. These authors have done their homework and they don't have an axe to grind. They ask readers to take seriously the challenge to create an educational system that provides genuine equality of opportunity for every child, and that might put the American dream within reach of everyone in today's multicultural America."--Publishers Weekly<p><br>"Perceptive, well documented."--Library Journal<p><br>"A wonderfully vigorous defense of our public schools, which is at the same time a detailed, incisive, and illuminating analysis of everything that is wrong with them. Americans who believe in the importance of a common education for citizenship and autonomy will find in this book their political agenda."--Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, and editor of Dissent<p><br>"A book that all Americans should read and discuss. They remind us that debates about education are really debates about how we 'move the American dream from ideology to practice'."--Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education<p><br>"Most liberals will love this book, and most conservatives won't. But all who want to learn about American education can benefit enormously from reading Read more...
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- Education and state -- United States.
- Educational equalization -- United States.
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- Éducation -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis.
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