Rescuing the Public Schools : What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind

by Clinchy, Evans

• ISBN13: 9780807747636
• ISBN10: 0807747637
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-09
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

What would a truly democratic, functional, and educationally productive system look like? How did we arrive at our current system? How can an informed public work to reshape the system equitably? How can educators partner with their broader communities? In this provocative book, renowned expert Evans Clinchy shows how we can revitalize American public education and build a new system that will serve all children, rich and poor, foreign or native-born. Everyone who cares about public education should read this inspiring book.

Author Biography

Evans Clinchy is Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Responsive Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: "The School as a Means of Education"	p. 1
Adventures in the Education Trade	p. 4
Two Additional Great Educational Experiences	p. 12
An All-Too-Brief Creative Advance into Novelty	p. 19
The Creation of Two Incompatible Educational Processes	p. 49
Development as the Aim of Education	p. 76
Reinventing the System	p. 106
Suggested Readings	p. 123
Notes	p. 125
Index	p. 128
About the Author	p. 134
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.