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"An essential resource for those grappling with policy, history, and politics in education." (Educational Leadership)
"I have been waiting for this book for a decade. In an age in which the national debate on school reform is concerned principally with tactics and process, this volume focuses on the most important of all questions. What is the purpose of school? How do we know if a school is working? The authors are the most highly regarded names in education. This is an important book for anyone interested in schooling in America today." (Arthur Levine, president, Teachers College, Columbia University)
"Anyone who has felt the onset of cynicism as wave after wave of `school reform' fades unnoticed will feel a burst of new optimism after reading this book. Goodlad and his colleagues remind us forcefully how worthy the ideal of public schooling is and how crucial it is to democracy and to the improvement of society's infrastructure." (Barry Munitz, chancellor, The California State University)
"This book is a genuinely helpful guide for going back to the basics in public school governance. It establishes a credible context in which the public purpose of education and schooling should be reexamined today by community leaders in America's 15,000 public school districts. It is a solid basis on which to begin and carry forth in each local community a searching review of the philosophy of the fundamental purpose of the public schools." (Thomas A. Shannon, executive director emeritus, National School Boards Association)
"The discussion started here by a panel of distinguished educators should become widespread among all those concerned with the meaning of 'public' in public education." (Nel Noddings, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education, School of Education, Stanford University)
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"I have been waiting for this book for a decade. In an age in which the national debate on school reform is concerned principally with tactics and process, this volume focuses on the most important of all questions. What is the purpose of school? How do we know if a school is working? The authors are the most highly regarded names in education. This is an important book for anyone interested in schooling in America today."
-- Arthur Levine, president, Teachers College, Columbia University
"An essential resource for those grappling with policy, history, and politics in education." (Educational Leadership)
"I have been waiting for this book for a decade. In an age in which the national debate on school reform is concerned principally with tactics and process, this volume focuses on the most important of all questions. What is the purpose of school? How do we know if a school is working? The authors are the most highly regarded names in education. This is an important book for anyone interested in schooling in America today." (Arthur Levine, president, Teachers College, Columbia University)
"Anyone who has felt the onset of cynicism as wave after wave of `school reform' fades unnoticed will feel a burst of new optimism after reading this book. Goodlad and his colleagues remind us forcefully how worthy the ideal of public schooling is and how crucial it is to democracy and to the improvement of society's infrastructure." (Barry Munitz, chancellor, The California State University)
"This book is a genuinely helpful guide for going back to the basics in public school governance. It establishes a credible context in which the public purpose of education and schooling should be reexamined today by community leaders in America's 15,000 public school districts. It is a solid basis on which to begin and carry forth in each local community a searching review of the philosophy of the fundamental purpose of the public schools." (Thomas A. Shannon, executive director emeritus, National School Boards Association)
"The discussion started here by a panel of distinguished educators should become widespread among all those concerned with the meaning of 'public' in public education." (Nel Noddings, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education, School of Education, Stanford University)
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"I have been waiting for this book for a decade. In an age in which the national debate on school reform is concerned principally with tactics and process, this volume focuses on the most important of all questions. What is the purpose of school? How do we know if a school is working? The authors are the most highly regarded names in education. This is an important book for anyone interested in schooling in America today."
-- Arthur Levine, president, Teachers College, Columbia University
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It is easy enough to explain the continuing assault on America's children that passes as education policy nowadays: kids are politically invisible-without significant power-and their public schools are no longer regarded as "ours" because they are predominantly nonwhite, peopled by the "invisible children" of the Invisible Man. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Roger Soder, San Francisco, United States, Benjamin Barber, Don Ernst, Grand Inquisitor, Linda Darling-Hammond, National Network, Columbia University, Ralph Lerner, Richard Sennett, The Manufactured Crisis, Alexis de Tocqueville, Coalition of Essential Schools, Henry Ford, Jane Roland Martin, Mary Ellen Finch, Teachers College Press, The Fall of Public Man, Abraham Lincoln, African American, America's Public Schools, Ballantine Books, Cornell University Press New!
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It is easy enough to explain the continuing assault on America's children that passes as education policy nowadays: kids are politically invisible-without significant power-and their public schools are no longer regarded as "ours" because they are predominantly nonwhite, peopled by the "invisible children" of the Invisible Man. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more thoughtful public, social suffering Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Roger Soder, San Francisco, United States, Benjamin Barber, Don Ernst, Grand Inquisitor, Linda Darling-Hammond, National Network, Columbia University, Ralph Lerner, Richard Sennett, The Manufactured Crisis, Alexis de Tocqueville, Coalition of Essential Schools, Henry Ford, Jane Roland Martin, Mary Ellen Finch, Teachers College Press, The Fall of Public Man, Abraham Lincoln, African American, America's Public Schools, Ballantine Books, Cornell University Press New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Democracy, Education, and the Schools (Jossey Bass Education Series) by Roger Soder on 8 pages
- An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America by Benjamin R. Barber on 5 pages
- The Fall of Public Man (Open Market Edition) by Richard Sennett on 4 pages
- Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam on 4 pages
- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on page 32, page 95, and page 149
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- Leadership for Educational Renewal: Developing a Cadre of Leaders (Agenda for Education in a Democracy, Vol 1) by Wilma F. Smith on 7 pages
- Developing Democratic Character in the Young by Roger Soder on 6 pages
- Effective Professional Development Schools (Agenda for Education in a Democracy, V. 3.) (Volume 3) by Richard W. Clark in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Professional Teacher, The Preparation and Nurturance of the Reflective Practitioner (Agenda for Education in a Democracy, V. 4) (Volume 4) by Kay A. Norlander-Case in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Centers of Pedagogy (Agenda for Education in a Democracy, Vol 2) (Volume 2) by Robert S. Patterson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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