02577nam 22005534a 450 991077852210332120230823160119.01-282-40877-197866124087790-313-05717-6(CKB)1000000000821352(EBL)497067(OCoLC)547350798(SSID)ssj0000342461(PQKBManifestationID)11947756(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342461(PQKBWorkID)10285381(PQKB)11255493(MiAaPQ)EBC497067(Au-PeEL)EBL497067(CaPaEBR)ebr10349612(CaONFJC)MIL240877(EXLCZ)99100000000082135220040212d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe rise and fall of American public schools the political economy of public education in the twentieth century /Robert J. FranciosiWestport, CT :Praeger,2004.1 online resource (x, 245 pages) illustrations0-275-97687-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.A century of progress? : resources and outcomes in public education -- The school productivity puzzle -- Creating the American high school -- No choice and no voice : the erosion of local control -- Reforming American education.This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in American public education and how it has been steadily eroded. Franciosi advocates school choice as a way of restoring greater control by parents over their children's schools. This work is distinct among calls of reform in that it takes a skeptical attitude towards the centralized school reform movemEducationUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPublic schoolsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEducationHistoryPublic schoolsHistory371.01/0973Franciosi Robert J1480270MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778522103321The rise and fall of American public schools3696836UNINA