LEADER 04720nam 2200649 450 001 9910453260503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-313-39809-7 010 $a0-313-39810-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001135817 035 $a(EBL)1489963 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001002908 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11532441 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001002908 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11015213 035 $a(PQKB)10735999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1489963 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1489963 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10789207 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL535525 035 $a(OCoLC)879022579 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001135817 100 $a20130621h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOld school still matters $elessons from history to reform public education in America /$fBrian L. Fife 210 1$aSanta Barbara, California :$cPraeger,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (346 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-04274-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 299-322) and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Horace Mann and the Common School Ideology; The Idea of Public Education for All; The Importance of Theory and History in Education Reform; Public versus Private Institutions; The Common School Ideology of the 1830s and 1840s; Horace Mann's Common School Ideology in the Contemporary World and Beyond; 2 The Market-Based Ideology and Politics of the Conservative Right; Twentieth-Century Conservative Philosophers; The Impact of Conservatism on American Politics since 1980; Policy Implications of the Market-Based Ideology and Conservative Political Philosophy 327 $a3 Education and the Politics of FederalismThe Abstract Nature of the Federalism Debate; The Evolution of Federalism in the United States; The Whig Party of the Nineteenth Century; National Intervention in K-12 Public Education; The Serious and Somber Policy Implications of NCLB; 4 Education and the Politics of Consumerism and Conservatism; The McGuffey Readers of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Consumerism Defined; The Evolution of the Consumer Ideology; The Commercialization of Public Education; A Century-Old Illusion; 5 Education in the Early Twenty-First Century 327 $aK-12 Public School DesegregationSchool Choice in the Contemporary World; Revisiting the School Choice Debate; 6 Citizenship in a Republican Form of Government in the Twenty-First Century; The Omnipresent Reality of Systems Theory; The Role of the Citizen in a Republic; Political Participation in a Republic; The More Proactive Citizen in the American Republic; 7 Education: A Public Good Worth Defending; The Need for a Fearless Advocate of Public Education; Revisiting the Individualist Creed in the United States; What Is a Public Good?; 8 Blueprint for Progressive Reform 327 $aReform Premise A: Maintain Horace Mann's Common School IdealReform Premise B: Maintain and Expand Civic Education in the Public Schools; Reform Premise C: Repeal NCLB in Its Entirety and Deemphasize High-Stakes Standardized Testing; Reform Premise D: Reduce Poverty in America; Reform Premise E: Citizens Must Become More Engaged in the Electoral Process; Reform Premise F: Embrace the Communitarian Philosophy; Reform Premise G: Revisit Federal Budgetary Priorities; Reform Premise H: Rethinking the Status Quo with Regard to the School Year and the School Day 327 $aReform Premise I: Minimize the Influence of Business in Public EducationReform Premise J: Students, Parents, and Caregivers Are Part of the Solution; A Concluding Comment; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $a"Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPublic schools$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEducation$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEducational change$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPublic schools$xHistory. 615 0$aEducation$xHistory. 615 0$aEducational change$xHistory. 676 $a371.010973 700 $aFife$b Brian L$0949231 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453260503321 996 $aOld school still matters$92145516 997 $aUNINA