Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
Discusses how certain political and educational groups usecensorship to determine what American school children can and should learn and explores the effect this has had on American culture.
A multicultural anthology of history and literature--a collection of speeches, documents, poems, songs, photographs, and illustrations that captures the many-faceted American spirit in words and images.
Published to coincide with the PBS special on public education, this collection of writings by the nation's most renowned historians of education chronicles the story of America's grand experiment in public education.
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