Somewhere. . . there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive. . . . It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these yea

The full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself. Public education as we know it is in trouble. Dere

orah Meier combines essays and journal entries in an essential defense of public education. "A stirring manifesto for democratic, public education--hurled into

A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replaci

In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking