Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy

414 Pages·2021·3.688 MB·English

by  David C. Berliner (editor), Carl Hermanns (editor)

Public Education
Defending a Cornerstone of American
Democracy
EDITED BY
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DAVID C. BERLINER
CARL HERMANNS
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Published by Teachers College Press,® 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Copyright © 2022 by Teachers College, Columbia University
Essay 9 is from: Teaching to Change the World, 5th Edition, Jeannie Oakes, Martin Lipton, Jamy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Berliner, David C., editor. | Hermanns, Carl, editor.
Title: Public education : defending a cornerstone of American democracy / Edited by David C.
Berliner, Carl Hermanns.
Description: New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identi�ers: LCCN 2021034661 (print) | LCCN 2021034662 (ebook) | ISBN 9780807766095
(paperback) | ISBN 9780807766101 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780807779941 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Public schools—United States. | Education—Political aspects—United States. |
Education and state—United States. | Educational change—United States.
Classi�cation: LCC LA217.2 .P835 2021 (print) | LCC LA217.2 (ebook) | DDC 371.010973—
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LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034661
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034662
ISBN 978-0-8077-6609-5 (paper)
ISBN 978-0-8077-6610-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-8077-7994-1 (ebook)
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Contents
Introduction
PART I
1. In Times of Crisis, Why We Need Public Schools
William J. Mathis
2. A Brief History of Public Education
Diane Ravitch
PART II
3. Values and Education Policy
Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd
4. Public Schooling as Social Welfare
David F. Labaree
5. Re�ections on the Public School and the Social Fabric
Mike Rose
6. Our Schools and Our Towns Belong to Each Other
Peter Greene
PART III
7. e Great Equalizer of the Conditions of Humanity: How
Transformative Can Schools Be When Society Itself Remains
Inequitable and Quarrelsome?
Peter Smagorinsky
8. e Mythical Great Equalizer School System: Exploring the Potential to
Make It Real
Kevin Welner
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9. Democracy’s Wobbly Cornerstone: Seeking to Be the “Great Equalizer”
in a Deeply Unequal Culture
Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton
10. Re�ections on What Might Have Been
Sonia Nieto
11. Necessary But Insufficient: Why Public Schooling Alone Cannot
Equalize
Prudence L. Carter
12. Public Education for the Public Good: Black Teachers and Teaching
H. Richard Milner IV
13. Making the Common School Truly Common: Black Americans’ Long
and Un�nished Fight for Integrated Schools
Jeanne M. Powers
PART IV
14. We Know Better and Must Do Better
Martin Brooks
15. If We Believe at Democracy Is Such a Great Idea, Why Don’t Schools
Practice It More?
Deborah Meier
16. e Role of Public Schools in the Preparation of Young People to
Engage in Civic Reasoning and Discourse
Carol D. Lee
17. Tensions Between Teacher Professionalism and Authentic Community
Voice in Public Schools Serving Nondominant Communities
Ken Zeichner
18. Horace Mann and a New Common Good
Joshua P. Starr
19. Horace and George and Zitkala-Sa: Reimagining Experimentation
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Jacqueline Grennon Brooks
20. Public School Funding and the “Reform” Distraction
Mark Weber
21. Education Is Our Only Political Safety
James Harvey
22. Is ere Still a Public for Public Education?
Gloria Ladson-Billings
PART V
23. Public Education at a Crossroads: Will Horace Mann’s Common School
Survive the Era of Choice?
Carol Corbett Burris
24. What’s Not to Like About Private Schools?
Jack Jennings
25. Scrutinizing the School Choice Equity Ethos for Black Parents
Julian Vasquez Heilig
26. e Scandalous History of Schools at Receive Public Financing, But
Do Not Accept the Public’s Right of Oversight
David C. Berliner
PART VI
27. Can Public Common Schooling Save the Republic?
D.C. Phillips
28. Public Schools and Acting Against the reats to Democracy
Michael W. Apple
29. A New Deal for Public Schools
William Ayers
About the Editors and Contributors
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Index
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