Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. David Tyack and Larry Cuban sugges...
Stephen Macedo believes that, when it comes to education policy in the United States and other culturally diverse democracies, diversity should often, but not always, be highly valued. We must reme...
“As students go hazily from class to class, box to box, schooling as a technique of social control perpetuates itself. And as leftists drone on about better education for the people, for the masses...
NINE ASSUMPTIONS OF SCHOOLING: & Twenty-one Facts the Institution Would Rather Not Discuss; by John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto is a former New York State and New York City Teacher of the Yea...
Maria Casalla Louis Van Beneden (eds) (See Table of Content)
TEACHING IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
The status and the working conditions of the teachers The contribution of private schools to reach the EFA ...
In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more pe...
A review of why school reforms usually fail, compelling examples of better ways to organize and manage any organization so that it works well for all stakeholders, examples of schools that are more...
Why are your tax dollars helping to keep what was implemented long ago which is "Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combin...
COMPULSORY MISEDUCATION Paul Goodman When at a meeting, I offer that perhaps we already have too much formal schooling and that under present conditions, the more we get the less education we will ...
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DESCHOOLING SOCIETY
by Ivan Illich
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Volume 24 - Issue 03 :: Feb. 10-23, 2007
INDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE from the publishers of THE HINDU
COLUMN
The farce of `school choice'
JAYATI GHOSH The voucher system is no panacea for the ills ...