Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning

by Paul E. Peterson

Book Overview

Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674062159
• ISBN13: 9780674062153
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"