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Public Education Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy EDITED BY 3 DAVID C. BERLINER CARL HERMANNS 4 Published by Teachers College Press,® 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 Copyright © 2022 by Teachers College, Columbia University Essay 9 is from: Teaching to Change the World, 5th Edition, Jeannie Oakes, Martin Lipton, Jamy Stillman, and Lauren Anderson, Copyright © 2018 by Routledge. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher. For reprint permission and other subsidiary rights requests, please contact Teachers College Press, Rights Dept.: [email protected] Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Berliner, David C., editor. | Hermanns, Carl, editor. Title: Public education : defending a cornerstone of American democracy / Edited by David C. Berliner, Carl Hermanns. Description: New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identi�ers: LCCN 2021034661 (print) | LCCN 2021034662 (ebook) | ISBN 9780807766095 (paperback) | ISBN 9780807766101 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780807779941 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Public schools—United States. | Education—Political aspects—United States. | Education and state—United States. | Educational change—United States. Classi�cation: LCC LA217.2 .P835 2021 (print) | LCC LA217.2 (ebook) | DDC 371.010973— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034661 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034662 ISBN 978-0-8077-6609-5 (paper) ISBN 978-0-8077-6610-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-8077-7994-1 (ebook) 5 6 Contents Introduction PART I 1. In Times of Crisis, Why We Need Public Schools William J. Mathis 2. A Brief History of Public Education Diane Ravitch PART II 3. Values and Education Policy Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd 4. Public Schooling as Social Welfare David F. Labaree 5. Re�ections on the Public School and the Social Fabric Mike Rose 6. Our Schools and Our Towns Belong to Each Other Peter Greene PART III 7. e Great Equalizer of the Conditions of Humanity: How Transformative Can Schools Be When Society Itself Remains Inequitable and Quarrelsome? Peter Smagorinsky 8. e Mythical Great Equalizer School System: Exploring the Potential to Make It Real Kevin Welner 7 9. Democracy’s Wobbly Cornerstone: Seeking to Be the “Great Equalizer” in a Deeply Unequal Culture Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton 10. Re�ections on What Might Have Been Sonia Nieto 11. Necessary But Insufficient: Why Public Schooling Alone Cannot Equalize Prudence L. Carter 12. Public Education for the Public Good: Black Teachers and Teaching H. Richard Milner IV 13. Making the Common School Truly Common: Black Americans’ Long and Un�nished Fight for Integrated Schools Jeanne M. Powers PART IV 14. We Know Better and Must Do Better Martin Brooks 15. If We Believe at Democracy Is Such a Great Idea, Why Don’t Schools Practice It More? Deborah Meier 16. e Role of Public Schools in the Preparation of Young People to Engage in Civic Reasoning and Discourse Carol D. Lee 17. Tensions Between Teacher Professionalism and Authentic Community Voice in Public Schools Serving Nondominant Communities Ken Zeichner 18. Horace Mann and a New Common Good Joshua P. Starr 19. Horace and George and Zitkala-Sa: Reimagining Experimentation 8 Jacqueline Grennon Brooks 20. Public School Funding and the “Reform” Distraction Mark Weber 21. Education Is Our Only Political Safety James Harvey 22. Is ere Still a Public for Public Education? Gloria Ladson-Billings PART V 23. Public Education at a Crossroads: Will Horace Mann’s Common School Survive the Era of Choice? Carol Corbett Burris 24. What’s Not to Like About Private Schools? Jack Jennings 25. Scrutinizing the School Choice Equity Ethos for Black Parents Julian Vasquez Heilig 26. e Scandalous History of Schools at Receive Public Financing, But Do Not Accept the Public’s Right of Oversight David C. Berliner PART VI 27. Can Public Common Schooling Save the Republic? D.C. Phillips 28. Public Schools and Acting Against the reats to Democracy Michael W. Apple 29. A New Deal for Public Schools William Ayers About the Editors and Contributors 9 Index 10 11
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