"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 shaped today
s flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant
American schools has shifted away from families and communities to
larger, more centralized entities initially to bigger districts and
eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal
government.
Peterson s tales help to explain how nation building,
progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization,
legalization, special education, bilingual teaching,
accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in
a different way, set the stage for a new era in American
education.
Now, under the impact of rising cost, coupled with the
possibilities unleashed by technological innovation, schooling may
be transformed through virtual learning. The result could be a
personalized, customized system of education in which families have
greater choice and control over their children s education than at
any time since our nation was founded.
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