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Seeking Common Ground David Tyack

Seeking Common Ground By David Tyack

Seeking Common Ground by David Tyack

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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 never been easy in a society where schoolchildren followed different religions, adhered to different cultural traditions, and were identified as members of different "races".

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Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society by David Tyack

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 never been easy in a society where schoolchildren followed different religions, adhered to different cultural traditions, spoke many languages, and were identified as members of different "races".

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Organized around the themes of unity, diversity, and democracy, the book ranges across the landscape of educational history. Among other things, it describes the quest for a common denominator of political and moral truths that informed the creation of the common schools; discusses the various ways in which educators have dealt with questions of social and educational diversity, focusing in particular on issues of race, immigration and ethnicity, gender and academic failure; and examines questions of educational governance, including an analysis of the struggle between democratic localism and bureaucratic centralism, as well as the history of private alternatives to public education with specific reference to current debates over vouchers and school choice. He looks at these in terms of two competing educational ideals: securing common values and respecting cultural differences, with an emphasis on how political leaders and school officials since the late eighteenth century have sought

About David Tyack

David Tyack is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of History Emeritus, Stanford University.

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CIN0674011988G
9780674011984
0674011988
Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society by David Tyack
David Tyack
Used - Good
Hardback
Harvard University Press
2004-01-13
208
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