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Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Release Year
2020
Book Title
Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on Ameri...
ISBN
9781541788442

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Publicaffairs
ISBN-10
1541788443
ISBN-13
9781541788442
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038423592

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Schoolhouse Burning : Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy
Subject
Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, Educational Policy & Reform / Charter Schools, Educational Law & Legislation, History
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Education
Author
Derek W. Black
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-011959
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A polemic against the ongoing dismantling of public education... Education reformers and public school advocates will find a powerful ally here." -- Kirkus, "Black's book is packed with information and analysis, but remains exceptionally accessible, like getting a detailed explanation from a legal scholar who just happens to speak plain English. Beyond the well-researched history, Black also provides a convincing argument in favor of public education in this country, a defense of a foundational institution at a time it is once again under attack."-- Forbes, "Derek Black is the rare education law scholar willing to put his vast skills and knowledge in the service of defending our nation's public schools. Schoolhouse Burning is a searing analysis of the current assault on public education by those intent on its destruction and, with it, the further erosion of our democratic institutions. It is also an urgent call to action to join with parents, advocates, teachers, and lawyers on the front lines of ensuring the right of every child to a high-quality education remains prominent, paramount and fully protected." -- David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, "Derek Black has written a magnificent book on the history of public education in the United States. Professor Black shows that the future of American society-its equality, its democracy-depends on improving its public schools. This beautifully written book offers a path forward to making a right to a quality education for all children a reality." -- Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, "A well-informed and cautiously optimistic defense of public education's central role in the American experiment." -- Publishers Weekly, "I loved Schoolhouse Burning for its stirring defense of the central importance of public education to American democracy, and for Derek Black's groundbreaking research. He definitively shows that the founders of the nation enthusiastically promoted public schools, that public schools enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support, and were established in every state as central to democracy. The current efforts to privatize them with vouchers began with segregationists in the 1950s and continue today with charter schools, reinvigorated vouchers, and deep cuts to public school funding. I highly recommend Schoolhouse Burning as an important counter to a destructive trend."-- Diane Ravitch, author of Slaying Goliath and Reign of Error, "Derek W. Black analyzes the problem with public education in the United States today, and lays out a plan to fix it."-- Bustle, "Black argues that education does indeed play a foundational, constitutional role in American democracy and that it is the state's obligation--often the state's primary obligation--to provide it....[H]e takes us back to several crucial moments in American history when questions about the meaning of democratic governance became inescapably acute, and he reminds us of the central role that public education played in each of them." -- Derek Gottlieb, author of A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
371.010973
Synopsis
The full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate, shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. Schoolhouse Burning is grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how the nation, in its infancy, built itself around public education and, following the Civil War, enshrined education as a constitutional right that forever changed the trajectory of our democracy. Public education, alongside the right to vote, was the cornerstone of the recovery of the war-torn nation. Today's current schooling trends -- the declining commitment to properly fund public education and the well-financed political agenda to expand vouchers and charter schools -- present a major assault on the democratic norms that public education represents and risk undermining one of the unique accomplishments of American society., 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 obligation of government to its citizens.As Derek W. Black vividly illustrates, this assault threatens not just public education, but democracy itself. Black offers both an illuminating history of our nation's establishment of a constitutional right to education, and a trenchant analysis of how such a right is being undermined today. He looks at education history with a wide view, describing both periods when our democracy has been strengthened-when the commitment to public education has been strongest-and weakened, when such a commitment has been lacking. And today, such a commitment is sorely lacking. Schoolhouse Burning shows what is at stake: not just the right to public education as guaranteed by the constitution, but an erosion of democratic norms.
LC Classification Number
LA217.2.B574 2020

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