Sheila Curran Bernard
Auteur de School: The Story of American Public Education
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Œuvres de Sheila Curran Bernard
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Bernard, Sheila Curran
- Date de naissance
- 1957-08-08
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Boston University (BS|communication)
Goddard Collage (MFA) - Professions
- filmmaker
- Organisations
- University of Albany
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This is an excellent book that I had as a textbook for a college course about education. The book follows a PBS special and gives the history behind education (in general.) The text is easy to follow and the pictures are appropriate. The book really tells the "story" of education (rather than being bland and just giving facts.)
90 minutes. Watch online at http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/watch/
From Amazon.com -- Slavery By Another Name challenges one of Americas most cherished assumptions the belief that slavery in the US ended with Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation by telling the harrowing story of how in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
From Amazon.com -- Slavery By Another Name challenges one of Americas most cherished assumptions the belief that slavery in the US ended with Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation by telling the harrowing story of how in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
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- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 302
- Popularité
- #77,842
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 33
- Langues
- 1
The history of the public school is interesting, but as soon as the state(s) made it mandatory and took the rights away from the parents it was never "right" in any form.
The book offers a lot of what happened, what didn't work, no why and toward the end it talked about schools trying new alternatives to teaching, but again, the political opinion in the book is skewed and offering a $25k voucher for every kid isn't the answer.
The public schools are already too concerned about the funding and not putting the students as the top priority.
Isn't that what a school should be about? The students?… (plus d'informations)