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INTRODUCTORY.
American fellow-citizens—America is my home! I have no other country. After my God and my religion, my country is the dearest object of my life! I love my country as dearly as any one else can. It is this love that makes my heart bleed when I call to mind the actual state of society in our country, and the principles that prevail everywhere. It is indeed but too true that we live in a most anti-Christian age; principles are disregarded, and iniqui… More >>
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Reinventing Public Education: How Contracting Can Transform America’s Schools
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A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes.
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Transforming Public Education: A New Course for America’s Future
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The “Educate America Act”, “Goals 2000″ has caused a variety of reactions in the education community. This collection of essays on “Goals 2000″ attempts to frame a different national education agenda and provide ways to move towards a model based on care and concern as well as strong academics…. More >>
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Power, Voice and the Public Good: Schooling and Education in Global Societies
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Three themes underpin the tripartite structure of Power, Voice, and the Public Good: the definitional and theoretical underpinnings of globalization; the ubiquitous nature and topical display of globalization; and the possibilities of understanding, redefining and rethinking aspects of globalization with the backdrop of issues that relate to education, and the pursuit of public good. A plethora of examples show how education and schooling respond to and are driven b… More >>
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Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement
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Jean Anyon’s groundbreaking new book reveals the influence of federal and metropolitan policies and practices on the poverty that plagues schools and communities in American cities and segregated, low-income suburbs. Public policies…such as those regulating the minimum wage, job availability, tax rates, federal transit, and affordable housing…all create conditions in urban areas that no education policy as currently conceived can transcend. In this first book si… More >>
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