The public schools 

 - Oxford :   Oxford University Press,   2005 
 - XXXVI-388 p. 
 - Institutions of American democracy series .
<br/><br/>	General introduction: The public schools as an institution of American constitutional democracy / Jaroslav Pelikan --<br/>Introduction / Susan Fuhrman and Marvin Lazerson --<br/>SECTION I: EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN SCHOOLING IN CONTEXT - Patriotic purposes : public schools and the education of citizens / Julie A. Reuben ; The governance of public education / Thomas Corcoran and Margaret Goertz ; The politics of polarization : education debates in the United States / William A. Galston ; Schooling citizens for evolving democracies / Bruce Fuller and Arun Rasiah - SECTION II: TEACHING, LEARNING AND WORKING - Classroom deliberations / Katherine G. Simon ; The state of civic education : preparing citizens in an era of accountability / Michael C. Johanek and John Puckett ; Working in schools / Susan Moore Johnson ; Youth, media, and citizenship / John Merrow - Section III: Citizen participation and civic engagement. Civic capacity : what, why, and from whence / Clarence N. Stone ; The education of democratic citizens : citizen mobilization and public education / Wendy D. Puriefoy ; The elusive ideal : civic learning and higher education / Matthew Hartley and Elizabeth L. Hollander - Section IV: Visions and possibilities. Agency, reciprocity, and accountability in democratic education / Richard F. Elmore ; Demographic change and democratic education / Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick ; School choice and the democratic ideal of free common schools / Paul R Dimond --<br/>Afterword: Democratic disagreement and civic education / Amy Gutmann. 
<br/><br/><label>Materias - Términos temáticos: </label><br/>EDUCACIÓN<br/>EDUCACIÓN PÚBLICA<br/>ESCUELA PÚBLICA<br/>ESTADOS UNIDOS<br/>FINALIDAD DE LA EDUCACIÓN<br/>DEMOCRATIZACIÓN DE LA EDUCACIÓN