American Model of State and School: An Historical Inquiry

by Charles L. Glenn

Book Overview

State and Schools argues that the American educational model represents a third way of organizing the provision of schooling, and that this accounts for some of its strengths as well as some of its weaknesses. Charles L. Glenn looks closely at the tradition of democratic localism in the management of schooling, and the powerful and anti-democratic effect of the emerging education 'profession, ' which has in some respects the characteristics of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441188428
• ISBN13: 9781441188427
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"