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Preserving the Public in Public Schools: Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices
Boyle, Phil; Burns, Del
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Description for Preserving the Public in Public Schools: Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices
hardcover. Preserving the Public in Public Schools is an exploration of the purposes of public schools, the competing visions of public education, and the values of the public good that comprise the public in public schools. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNA; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 503.
What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are political and ideological institutions in which each generation battles among itself for supremacy in determining the purposes, goals and direction of public education. From battles over school lunch to school dress to school prayer, each generation reinterprets and recapitulates the political and ideological arguments that date back to the ... Read more
What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are political and ideological institutions in which each generation battles among itself for supremacy in determining the purposes, goals and direction of public education. From battles over school lunch to school dress to school prayer, each generation reinterprets and recapitulates the political and ideological arguments that date back to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
R&L Education United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781610485425
SKU
V9781610485425
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99-15
About Boyle, Phil; Burns, Del
Phil Boyle is president of Leading and Governing Associates, a public purpose consulting practice dedicated to preserving democracy and representative government. Del Burns is a consultant and director of education services for GMK Associates and is a former superintendent.
Reviews for Preserving the Public in Public Schools: Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices
This book provoked me to think about the cross-currents shaping public education. Few things are as important as preparing the next generation for the future.
Stan Norwalk, member, Wake County board of commissioners, North Carolina Boyle and Burns have written a cogent and compelling book that takes us back to first principles. In a time when the education debate ... Read more
Stan Norwalk, member, Wake County board of commissioners, North Carolina Boyle and Burns have written a cogent and compelling book that takes us back to first principles. In a time when the education debate ... Read more