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These schools belong to you and me : why we can't afford to abandon our public schools

Meier, Deborah, author, Gasoi, Emily, author

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\"A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an \"apprenticeship for citizenship in a democracy.\" Through an intergenerational exchange with her former colleague and fellow educator Emily Gasoi, the coauthors share their experiences working in democratically governed schools and analyze the last several decades of education reform. Reflecting on the trajectory of education and social policies that are leading our country further from rule \"of, for, and by the people,\" the authors apply their extensive knowledge and years of research to address the question of how public education must change in order to counter the erosion of democratic spirit and practice in schools and in the nation as a whole\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Subject: Public schools United States. / Education Aims and objectives United States. / Democracy Study and teaching United States. / Democracy and education United States. / Education and state United States. / EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General. / EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects. / EDUCATION / Essays.
• ISBN: 9780807024737

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LA217.2.M455 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE