Defending Public Schools

Author : David Gabbard,Kathleen Kesson,Sandra Mathison,E. Wayne Ross,Kevin D. Vinson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780275982959

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Defending Public Schools [4 Volumes] by David Gabbard,Kathleen Kesson,Sandra Mathison,E. Wayne Ross,Kevin D. Vinson Pdf

Defending Public Schools addresses the historical, current, and future context of public schools in the United States. While the essays provide an overview of education and schooling issues, the overarching concern is that public schools are under attack and deserve to be defended. Since 80 percent of America's student-aged population attend public schools, a fair and balanced look at a school system that has educated and continues to educate a population that is diverse in every way possible, is sorely needed. It can be said that a national school system has never had to educate so many young people through secondary school with mastery of so much information. While no one rejects the necessity of school reform to meet contemporary needs, the question of how to achieve the greatest good for the greatest numbers remains for thousand of schools across the nation. Defending Public Schools is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policy makers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth.

Author : David C. Berliner,Carl Hermanns
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807766095

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Public Education by David C. Berliner,Carl Hermanns Pdf

"Twenty-eight eminent essayists remind our nations parents, educators, school board members and politicians that our democracy is in jeopardy and that our nation's system of free universal public education is also under attack. If that attack succeeds, American democracy itself would be further imperiled. That is because American democracy rests on a belief that the power of our government comes from the people, and the diffusion of knowledge and the enlightenment of the people has been a cornerstone of our democracy since the founding of our republic. America's public schools, therefore, have a special mandate"--

Author : Nathan Kollar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313359989

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Defending Religious Diversity in Public Schools by Nathan Kollar Pdf

This volume shows how and why our public schools should prepare to understand and deal with religious diversity in the United States and the world. Defending Religious Diversity in Public Schools: A Practical Guide for Building Our Democracy and Deepening Our Education makes a powerful case for exposing students to the multiplicity of faiths practiced in the United States and around the world—then offers a range of practical solutions for promoting religious understanding and tolerance in the school environment. Nathan Kollar's timely volume centers on the common issues associated with respecting religion in people's lives, including religious identities, the religious rights of students, bullying and other acts of intolerance, and legal perspectives on what should and should not happen in the classroom. It then focuses on the skills teachers, counselors, and administrators need to master to address those issues, including forming an advocacy coalition, listening, cultural analysis, conflict resolution, institutional development, choosing a leader, and keeping up to date with all the latest research developments from both the legal and educational communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : TStorme
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789082069600

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In defence of the school. A public issue by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259278

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Defending Public Schools: Teaching for a democratic society by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Author : Thomas S. Poetter
Publisher : IAP
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798887304434

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Vouch for This! by Thomas S. Poetter Pdf

Vouch for This! Defunding Private Interests, Defending Public Schools (A Call to Action) is an effort by doctoral students in Educational Leadership and their professor to understand and challenge the voucher and charter school movements in Ohio and beyond. Using a curriculum studies approach focusing on autobiographical analysis and a policy advocacy framework, students in a course on the topic shared a common reading list, storied their connections to the current movements in the field, and developed treatments of key aspects of current policy and practice in the areas of voucher and other privatizing efforts in education today as they are embodied in charter schools, homeschooling, and private school settings. Using the tools of currere and policy advocacy as a scholarly community, the authors tackle the multi-faceted challenges and dangers posed by the neoliberal, privatizing movements taking rapid shape across our public school system, as private schools, charters, and homeschooling continue to receive significantly more and more public taxpayer funds to operate and build. The authors share what they learned about the continued demise of public education at the hands of politicians and privateers in Ohio and beyond, and what they think citizens can do to resist. Together in teams, the authors engage topics related to education and public schooling as key aspects of democratic life; the actions taken by capital interests that seize on tragedy and perceived community weakness to privatize education and villainize public schools; the greed that creates fervor and interest in “choice”; and suggest ways to take action to stem the tide. The book’s foreword is written by well-known education activist William L. Phillis, Executive Director of The Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding (Ohio E&A), whose coalition of public school districts in Ohio is challenging the constitutionality of the voucher movements with their public case, “Vouchers Hurt Ohio.”

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259252

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Defending Public Schools by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Providing an overview and critique of issues in standards based reform and their accompanying accountability strategies, while supporting the neef for high quality schooling, this work discusses alternative means for school improvement and accountability. The Nature and Limits of Standards Based Reform and Assessment provides an overview and critique of issues in standards based reform and corresponding accountability. While supporting the need for high quality schooling, its chapters discuss local and various alternative means for improving schools while providing the accountability demanded by families, schools, and state and federal government.

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259286

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Defending Public Schools: Education under the security state by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259260

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Defending Public Schools: Curriculum continuity and change in the 21st century by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

The volume addresses such issues as the extent to which public schools are succeeding and the degree to which contemporary criticism is or is not warranted. By examining a range of content areas and a variety of philosophical and theoretical conerns, this work homes in on the evolution of curricula, methods and the forces and ideas that shape the debate. Chapters reflect the view that criticism of public schools and teachers is misplaced and misguided. Public schools operate under great stress from the pedagogical and political Left and Right. This often results in pressures and restrictions imposed through government mandates and corporate sponsorship that obscures the real issues and successes of America's public schools.

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131667243

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Education Under the Security State by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

This highly acclaimed volume in the Defending Public Schools series is now available in paperback from Teachers College Press. It is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth.

Author : Arthur J. Newman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412826055

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In Defense of the American Public School by Arthur J. Newman Pdf

The fifties saw schools as purveyors of international Communism; the sixties attacked the public educational system as racist, mindless, and irrelevant; and the Bicentennial era calls the schools down for their failure to teach students fundamental academic skills. Professor Arthur Newman's book of readings reflects an idea clearly regarded as heretical in many circles--the idea that the American public school is not nearly so inadequate as many present-day critics insist. In order to aid the teacher-to-be, the educator, and the concerned citizen in evaluating the validity of such reproval, Newman has included a wide variety of material, both classic and recent, under the following heads: *The Charge to the Public Schools *The Always-Abundant Criticism *The Schools' Record in Academic Achievement *The Treatment of Minority Group Youngsters *Are the Schools Inflexible? *Public School Teachers *Public Schools and Social Ills *A Critique of the Critics Anyone disturbed about the state of American public education will appreciate Newman's celebration of the myriad strengths of our schools and will esteem the intelligent and responsible perspective he sets forth to evaluate today's criticism of U.S. schools.

Author : John W. Friesen,Virginia Agnes Lyons Friesen
Publisher : Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 1550592246

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In Defense of Public Schools in North America by John W. Friesen,Virginia Agnes Lyons Friesen Pdf

Generally speaking, people in North America have great faith in their public schools. Unfortunately, somewhat disillusioned with educational trends, parents are withdrawing their children on grounds that school services can be offered more effectively elsewhere. Annually in Canada and the United States, thousands of children are removed from public schools by their parents on the grounds that the system is no longer delivering the goods. Private school enrollments are again rising, home schooling is burgeoning and charter schools are being hailed as an innovative solution to the educational ills of the 21st century. This book examines the history of public schools, underscoring the tremendous costs at which our public system of education came into being. A series of threatening alternatives to public schooling are examined, showing the deficiencies of each when compared to state-sponsored systems. The authors argue that public schools are not in need of repair; they are not in need of criticism; they do not need to be dismantled. They are simply in need of support.

Author : John Arena
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452970042

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Expelling Public Schools by John Arena Pdf

Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey—a conflict that is raging in cities across the country—from the vantage point of elites advancing the pro-privatization agenda and their grassroots challengers. Analyzing the unsuccessful effort of Cory Booker—Newark’s leading pro-privatization activist and mayor—to generate popular support for the agenda, and Booker’s rival and ultimate successor Ras Baraka’s eventual galvanization of the charter movement, Arena argues that Baraka’s black radical politics cloaked a revanchist agenda of privatization. Expelling Public Schools reveals the political rise of Booker and Baraka, their one-time rivalry and subsequent alliance, and what this particular case study illuminates about contemporary post–civil rights Black politics. Ultimately, Expelling Public Schools is a critique of Black urban regime politics and the way in which antiracist messaging obscures real class divisions, interests, and ideological diversity.

Author : Teachers' Union of the City of New York
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019603011

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Towards the New Education; the Case Against Autocracy in Our Public Schools ( Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Issued by the Schoolmasters' Association of New York and Vicinity and the American Defense Society, Entitled, " Unpatriotic Teaching in Public School by Teachers' Union of the City of New York Pdf

A compelling case for greater democracy and inclusivity in American public schools, arguing that the lesson of World War I is that we must work together to create a more just and equitable society for all. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Denisha Jones,Jesse Hagopian
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781642595307

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Black Lives Matter at School by Denisha Jones,Jesse Hagopian Pdf

This inspiring collection of accounts from educators and students is “an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system” (Ibram X. Kendi). Since 2016, the Black Lives Matter at School movement has carved a new path for racial justice in education. A growing coalition of educators, students, parents and others have established an annual week of action during the first week of February. This anthology shares vital lessons that have been learned through this important work. In this volume, Bettina Love makes a powerful case for abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones looks at the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education, and prominent teacher union leaders discuss the importance of anti-racism in their unions. Black Lives Matter at School includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from participants across the country who have been building the movement on the ground.