The public schools /  [print] 
Susan Fuhrman, Marvin Lazerson, editors. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2005. 
 - xxxvi, 388 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Institutions of American democracy series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Patriotic purposes: public schools and the education of citizens  The governance of public education  The politics of polarization: education debates in the Uited States  Schooling citizens for evolving democracies  Classroom deliberations  The state of civic education: preparing citizens in an era of accountability  Working in schools  Youth, media, and citizenship  Civic capacity: what, why, and from whence  The education of democratic citizens: citizen mobilization and public education  The elusive ideal: civic learning and higher education  Agency, reciprocity, and accountability in democratic education  Demographic change and democratic education  School choice and the democratic ideal of free common schools  Afterword: democratic disagreement and civic education  Julie  Reuben --  Thomas Corcoran and Margaret Goertz --  William Galston --  Bruce Fuller and Arun Rasiah --  Katherine Simon --  Michael C. Johanek and John Puckett --  Susan Moore Johnson --  John Merrow --  Clarence N. Stone --  Wendy D. Puriefoy --  Matthew Hartley and Elizabeth Hollander --  Richard F. Elmore --  Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick --  Paul R Dimond --  Amy Gutmann. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004029862 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public schools--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Democracy--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC191.L431.P835 2005 LC191