Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy

by Derek W. Black

Book Overview

The full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself.
Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate, shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. Schoolhouse Burningis grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541788443
• ISBN13: 9781541788442
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.6"