The American Dream and the Public Schools
Autor Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronicken Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2004
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195176032
ISBN-10: 0195176030
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 232 x 156 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0195176030
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 232 x 156 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
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.
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.
Perceptive, well documented.
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.
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'.
Pulls some important policy threads together in a constructive, persuasive way. Hochschild and Scovronick recognize the inevitable strains upon and within our democratic school systems but urge us not to lose heart: Public education, they remind us, remains the most likely route for individuals to achieve the American dream.
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 it. Hochschild and Scovronick cover the most fundamental educational issues of our time, linking the problems and prospects of American education with the most basic values of our culture. The result is a big-picture analysis that is at once genuinely informative and intellectually challenging.
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.
Perceptive, well documented.
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.
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'.
Pulls some important policy threads together in a constructive, persuasive way. Hochschild and Scovronick recognize the inevitable strains upon and within our democratic school systems but urge us not to lose heart: Public education, they remind us, remains the most likely route for individuals to achieve the American dream.
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 it. Hochschild and Scovronick cover the most fundamental educational issues of our time, linking the problems and prospects of American education with the most basic values of our culture. The result is a big-picture analysis that is at once genuinely informative and intellectually challenging.
Notă biografică
Jennifer Hochschild is Professor of Government at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Afro-American Studies and the author of Facing Up to the American Dream. Nathan Scovronick teaches education policy and directs the undergraduate program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.