The public schools
By: Susan Fuhrman, Marvin Lazerson, editors
Contributors: Fuhrman, Susan; Lazerson, Marvin; Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Series: Institutions of American democracy series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Public schools -- Social aspects -- United States; Democracy -- United States
Notes: "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Patriotic purposes: public schools and the education of citizens / Julie A. Reuben; title: The governance of public education / Thomas Corcoran and Margaret Goertz; title: The politics of polarization: education debates in the United States / William A. Galston; title: Schooling citizens for evolving democracies / Bruce Fuller and Arun Rasiah; title: Classroom deliberations / Katherine G. Simon; title: The state of civic education: preparing citizens in an era of accountability / Michael C. Johanek and John Puckett; title: Working in schools / Susan Moore Johnson; title: Youth, media, and citizenship / John Merrow; title: Civic capacity: what, why, and from whence / Clarence N. Stone; title: The education of democratic citizens: citizen mobilization and public education / Wendy D. Puriefoy; title: The elusive ideal: civic learning and higher education / Matthew Hartley and Elizabeth L. Hollander; title: Agency, reciprocity, and accountability in democratic education / Richard F. Elmore; title: Demographic change and democratic education / Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick; title: School choice and the democratic ideal of free common schools / Paul R. Dimond; title: Afterword: democratic disagreement and civic education / Amy Gutmann