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Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have To Tell Us
Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have To Tell Us
Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have To Tell Us
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One of the most compelling issues in public education involves what it means for schools to be public. Are they public in funding or public in oversight and control? Are they public in the values they convey or in the standards they set? Are they public in deciding curriculum or only in access to space? David Matthews probes these issues in 19th century Alabama in ways that no one else has attempted. And he provides lessons from the past that can inform the present and future.
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Release dateJan 1, 2012
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Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have To Tell Us
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David Mathews

DAVID MATHEWS attended the public schools of Clarke County, Alabama. After graduating from the University of Alabama, he went on to Columbia University, where he earned a PhD in American educational history. Mathews has been president of the University of Alabama and secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He is currently trustee and president of the Kettering Foundation. His other recent books are Politics for People: Finding a Responsible Public Voice and Is There a Public for Public Schools?

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