Pluralism and American Public Education No One Way to School

This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created. The book challenges the philosophical basis for the tr

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No One Way to School Pluralism and American Public Education

as hley ro g e r s be r ne r

Education Policy

Series Editors Lance D. Fusarelli North Carolina State University Department of Education Leadership, Policy & Human Development Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Frederick M. Hess American Enterprise Institute Washington, District of Columbia, USA Martin West Harvard University Graduate School of Education Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

This series addresses a variety of topics in the area of education policy. Volumes are solicited primarily from social scientists with expertise on education, in addition to policymakers or practitioners with hands-on experience in the field. Topics of particular focus include state and national policy, teacher recruitment, retention, and compensation, urban school reform, test-based accountability, choice-based reform, school finance, higher education costs and access, the quality instruction in higher education, leadership and administration in K-12 and higher education, teacher colleges, the role of the courts in education policymaking, and the relationship between education research and practice. The series serves as a venue for presenting stimulating new research findings, serious contributions to ongoing policy debates, and accessible volumes that illuminate important questions or synthesize existing research.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14961

Ashley Rogers Berner

Pluralism and American Public Education No One Way to School

Ashley Rogers Berner School of Education Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, USA

Education Policy ISBN 978-1-137-50223-0 ISBN 978-1-137-50224-7 ISBN 978-1-137-50226-1 (softcover) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50224-7

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