When visualizing a public school, many conjure an image of a traditional, neighborhood institution, similar from one place to another and run by the local school district.
When visualizing a public school, many conjure an image of a traditional, neighborhood institution, similar from one place to another and run by the local school district. However, Montana’s education
In honor of Civic Learning Week, we explore the promise of civics education to help us move through disagreements about teaching race, gender and other hot-button issues.
Among the best and most eye-opening books on education I’ve read in the last decade is Ashley Berner’s Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School. Having spent not a single minute of my career focused on international education, I likely would have assumed if asked that “public education” means the same thing everywhere as it means in the United States: a system of government-funded, government-run schools that a majority of children attend. Any exception to this private or faith-based schools, for example would be considered “non-public” just about everywhere.
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