Meier, Deborah

Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 MEI

Black, Derek W.

Summary: "We are in the midst of a full-scale attack on our nation's commitment to public education. From funding, to vouchers, to charter schools, public education policy has become a political football, rather than a means of fulfilling the most basic obligationof government to its citizens. As Derek W. Black vividly illustrates, this assault threatens not just public education, but democracy itself....

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.01 BLA