Research Catalog

Title

Old school still matters : lessons from history to reform public education in America / Brian L. Fife.

Author

Fife, Brian L.

Publication

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013]

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Details

Description

ix, 331 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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"--
• "Please see the text file attached"--

Subject

• EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
• EDUCATION / History
• Education > United States > History
• Educational change > United States > History
• Public schools > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-322) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Horace Mann and the common school ideology -- The market-based ideology and politics of the conservative right -- Education and the politics of federalism -- Education and the politics of consumerism and conservatism -- Education in the early twenty-first century -- Citizenship in a republican form of government in the twenty-first century -- Education: a public good worth defending -- Blueprint for progressive reform.

ISBN

• 9780313398094 (hardback)
• 0313398097 (hardback)
• 9780313398100 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013010545

OCLC

823041568

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library