Cargando…
The rise and fall of American public schools : the political economy of public education in the twentieth century /
This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in Am...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Westport, CT :
Praeger,
2004.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in American public education and how it has been steadily eroded. Franciosi advocates school choice as a way of restoring greater control by parents over their children's schools. This work is distinct among calls of reform in that it takes a skeptical attitude towards the centralized school reform movem. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780313057175 0313057176 1282408771 9781282408777 9786612408779 6612408774 |