Jennifer Hochschild is Professor of Government at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Afro-American Studies and the author of Facing Up to the American Dream. Nathan Scovronick teaches education policy and directs the undergraduate program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
"A wonderfully vigorous defense of our public schools, which is at
the same time a detailed, incisive, and illuminating analysis of
everything that is wrong with them."--Michael Walzer, Institute for
Advanced Study, and editor of Dissent
"Examines all sides of the debates while not losing sight of the
democratic principles of schooling."--Publishers Weekly
"Addresses nearly every educational policy issue of importance and
brings a welcome balance and fairness to the debate."--The
Washington Post
"Addresses nearly every educational policy issue of importance and
brings a welcome balance and fairness to the debate. In their
preface, they acknowledge that they began on opposite sides of
several arguments. Their book, as a consequence, has helpful
suggestions as to how those of us involved in educational issues
can get past our fondness for beating up on anyone who disagrees
with us on choice or testing or teaching styles. Among recent books
on education,
only one other book is as helpful to readers trying to maneuver
their way through the current cafeteria food-fight of conflicting
claims."--Washington Post
"This well-researched, up-to-date and balanced look at hot-button
issues examines all sides of the debates while not losing sight of
the democratic principles of schooling. These authors have done
their homework and they don't have an axe to grind. They ask
readers to take seriously the challenge to create an educational
system that provides genuine equality of opportunity for every
child, and that might put the American dream within reach of
everyone in
today's multicultural America."--Publishers Weekly
"Perceptive, well documented."--Library Journal
"A wonderfully vigorous defense of our public schools, which is at
the same time a detailed, incisive, and illuminating analysis of
everything that is wrong with them. Americans who believe in the
importance of a common education for citizenship and autonomy will
find in this book their political agenda."--Michael Walzer,
Institute for Advanced Study, and editor of Dissent
"A book that all Americans should read and discuss. They remind us
that debates about education are really debates about how we 'move
the American dream from ideology to practice'."--Ellen Condliffe
Lagemann, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Pulls some important policy threads together in a constructive,
persuasive way. Hochschild and Scovronick recognize the inevitable
strains upon and within our democratic school systems but urge us
not to lose heart: Public education, they remind us, remains the
most likely route for individuals to achieve the American
dream."--Theodore Sizer, University Professor Emeritus, Brown
University
"Most liberals will love this book, and most conservatives won't.
But all who want to learn about American education can benefit
enormously from reading it. Hochschild and Scovronick cover the
most fundamental educational issues of our time, linking the
problems and prospects of American education with the most basic
values of our culture. The result is a big-picture analysis that is
at once genuinely informative and intellectually
challenging."--Terry Moe,
Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
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