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Take a look at our recommended reading list below and please check back often as we continue to add more books!
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Cutting Through The Hype: A Taxpayer's Guide to School Reforms
By Jane L. David and Larry Cuban
The essential guide to understanding the ins and outs of school reforms across the nation. Drawing on their many years of experience as educators and researchers, co-authors Jane L. David and Larry Cuban give readers their insights on the often-times too-hopeful promises made for various reforms and the hard work necessary to make those promises come true. Their balanced appraisal of reforms and rules of thumb will help policymakers, citizens, and educators turn good ideas into sound policies.
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Reclaiming Our Democracy by Reclaiming Public Education
By David Mathews
This book is about what citizens and educators alike want from public education and how they might come closer to getting it. It is also about the obstacles that block them, beginning with significant differences in the ways that citizens see problems in the schools and how professional educators and policymakers talk about them. A deep chasm has developed between citizens and the schools that serve them. Can this divide be bridged? This book offers ideas about the work citizens can do to reverse this trend and improve education.
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The Institutions of Democracy: The Public Schools
Edited by Susan Furhman and Marvin Lazerson
From curriculum standards and testing to school choice and civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated in the United States. The Public Schools, a collection of essays by the nation's leading education scholars and professionals, is designed to inform the debate and stimulate change. Each essay in The Public Schools addresses essential questions for policymakers, educators, and anyone committed to public education. What role should public education play in a democracy? How has that role changed through American history? Have the schools lost sight of their responsibility to teach civics and citizenship? How are current debates about education shaping the future of this democratic institution? This book is part of the Institutions of Democracy series.
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