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Contentious curricula
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Amy J. Binder |
"This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts fo… |
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Public education, America's civil religion
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Carl L. Bankston |
In this volume, the authors argue that public education is a central part of American civil religion and, thus, gives us an unquestioning faith in the capacity of education to solve all of our social… |
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The public school advantage
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Christopher Lubienski |
Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we… |
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Between Church and State
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James W. Fraser |
The United States enters a new century with its citizens deeply divided, sometimes confused, and often angry about their differing opinions about the proper place of religion in the public schools of… |
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Seeking common ground
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David B. Tyack |
Publisher's description: The American republic will survive only if its citizens are educated--this was an article of faith of its founders. But seeking common civic ground in public schools has neve… |
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