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The "public" in public schools: a school board debate
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In this article I explore the debate about common schooling in an increasingly diverse and less deferential Canada. In a case study, I describe how one school board reacted when dissatisfied parents tried to establish a traditional school. The board rejected two such proposals, consistent with its policy of inclusion. The parents made it clear that there was no agreement about the meaning of inclusion and the nature of schooling in the district. This "politics of difference" poses questions a...
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; No reform movement except abolitionism absorbed the energies of so many Americans as the drive for public education, or created such widespread and bitter opposition. (Kelley 1970, 287) Historian Robert Kelley's statement has been echoed by educational historians Lawrence Cremin (1980) and Stanley
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The common school: neglected content in the high school social studies classroom?
The Clearing House
; No reform movement except abolitionism absorbed the energies of so many Americans as the drive for public education, or created such widespread and bitter opposition. (Kelley 1970, 287) Historian Robert Kelley's statement has been echoed by educational historians Lawrence Cremin (1980) and Stanley
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Education, socialization, and development of national identity: The American common school and Israel Defense Forces in transnational perspective.
Shofar
; The experiences of the nineteenth-century American common school and the twentieth century Israel Defense Forces as educational agencies provide a rich ground for the sort of comparative analysis undertaken by the burgeoning field of transnational history. While American historians have pointed out
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Salomone, Rosemary C. Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Perspectives on Political Science
; New Haven: Yale University Press329 pp., $30.00, ISBN 0-300-08119-7 Publication Date: August 2002 School choice, vouchers, school prayer, home schooling, accountability, and so on, are among the issues most commonly discussed by politicians, commentators, academics, and members of the general
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Are Proposed Educational Reforms Effective? // Common Schools, Common Values
Chicago Sun-Times
; California educators worried about the fate of Proposition 174, which would have allowed unregulated choice among schools. Since so many ideas are hatched in the West, we all wondered if Golden State voters would kill the golden goose of the common school. One feverish night, I was awakened by the
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