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The rise and fall of American public schools : the political economy of public education in the twentieth century / Robert J. Franciosi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franciosi, Robert J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--United States--History--20th century.
- Education.
- Public schools--United States--History--20th century.
- Public schools.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in American public education and how it has been steadily eroded. Franciosi advocates school choice as a way of restoring greater control by parents over their children's schools. This work is distinct among calls of reform in that it takes a skeptical attitude towards the centralized school reform movem
- Contents:
- A century of progress? : resources and outcomes in public education
- The school productivity puzzle
- Creating the American high school
- No choice and no voice : the erosion of local control
- Reforming American education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216009115
- 9786612408779
- 9781282408777
- 1282408771
- 9780313057175
- 0313057176
- OCLC:
- 547350798
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