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Title:
The education wars : a citizen's guide and defense manual
Author:
Berkshire, Jennifer, author.
Added Author:
Schneider, Jack (Writer on education), author.
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New York : The New Press, 2024.

©2024.
Physical Description:
173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781620978542
Abstract:
"A guide to the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Chapter 1: What's at stake and why should anyone care? -- Chapter 2: Why are we always fighting about schools? -- Chapter 3: Why are we fighting about schools now? -- Chapter 4: What's religion got to do with it? -- Chapter 5: What's really behind the push for parental rights? -- Chapter 6: What's so bad about funding students, not systems? -- Chapter 7: Democracy is not a spectator sport -- Chapter 8: Reclaiming education as a public good.
Subject Term:
Public schools -- Political aspects -- United States.

Education -- Political aspects -- United States.

Education and state -- United States.

Privatization in education -- United States.

Right and left (Political science) -- United States.

Religion and politics -- United States.

Culture conflict -- United States.

Social values -- United States.

Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
Language:
English
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