| Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Horace Mann and the Common School Ideology -- The Idea of Public Education for All -- The Importance of Theory and History in Education Reform -- Public versus Private Institutions -- The Common School Ideology of the 1830s and 1840s -- Horace Mann's Common School Ideology in the Contemporary World and Beyond -- 2 The Market-Based Ideology and Politics of the Conservative Right -- Twentieth-Century Conservative Philosophers -- The Impact of Conservatism on American Politics since 1980 -- Policy Implications of the Market-Based Ideology and Conservative Political Philosophy -- 3 Education and the Politics of Federalism -- The Abstract Nature of the Federalism Debate -- The Evolution of Federalism in the United States -- The Whig Party of the Nineteenth Century -- National Intervention in K-12 Public Education -- The Serious and Somber Policy Implications of NCLB -- 4 Education and the Politics of Consumerism and Conservatism -- The McGuffey Readers of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Consumerism Defined -- The Evolution of the Consumer Ideology -- The Commercialization of Public Education -- A Century-Old Illusion -- 5 Education in the Early Twenty-First Century -- K-12 Public School Desegregation -- School Choice in the Contemporary World -- Revisiting the School Choice Debate -- 6 Citizenship in a Republican Form of Government in the Twenty-First Century -- The Omnipresent Reality of Systems Theory -- The Role of the Citizen in a Republic -- Political Participation in a Republic -- The More Proactive Citizen in the American Republic -- 7 Education: A Public Good Worth Defending -- The Need for a Fearless Advocate of Public Education -- Revisiting the Individualist Creed in the United States -- What Is a Public Good? |
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8 Blueprint for Progressive Reform -- Reform Premise A: Maintain Horace Mann's Common School Ideal -- Reform Premise B: Maintain and Expand Civic Education in the Public Schools -- Reform Premise C: Repeal NCLB in Its Entirety and Deemphasize High-Stakes Standardized Testing -- Reform Premise D: Reduce Poverty in America -- Reform Premise E: Citizens Must Become More Engaged in the Electoral Process -- Reform Premise F: Embrace the Communitarian Philosophy -- Reform Premise G: Revisit Federal Budgetary Priorities -- Reform Premise H: Rethinking the Status Quo with Regard to the School Year and the School Day -- Reform Premise I: Minimize the Influence of Business in Public Education -- Reform Premise J: Students, Parents, and Caregivers Are Part of the Solution -- A Concluding Comment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education |
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Print version record |
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Public schools -- United States -- History
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Education -- United States -- History
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Educational change -- United States -- History
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Education
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Educational change
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Public schools
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780313398100 |
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0313398100 |
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