The Rise and Fall of American Public Schools
Subtitle: The Political Economy of Public Education in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780275976873
Subjects: Administration - General; Public Policy - General; Education / Administration; Education; Education / Teaching; 20th century; History; Public schools; United States
First sentence: In their defense of modern American public education, David Berliner and Bruce Biddle maintain that much of the present criticism regarding the condition of the nation's schools is, as they state in the title of their book, a "manufactured crisis" (Berliner and Biddle 1995).