The public schools

General introduction: The public schools as an institution of American constitutional democracy / Jaroslav Pelikan --
Introduction / Susan Fuhrman and Marvin Lazerson --
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 --
Afterword: Democratic disagreement and civic education / Amy Gutmann.