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Article: Defending Public Schools.(Defending Public Schools, vols. 4)(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2005
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Defending Public Schools is a four-volume set that does not have to be read all at once. With that caveat in mind, the set is valuable in total but also allows the busy administrator to read sections of the books on an as-needed basis.
Why should public schools have to be defended? This represents an obvious question to some, but not to many, particularly those who don't interact with public schools. In this treatise, the essays resolve educational contradictions, artfully edited by E. Wayne Ross, a professor of curriculum studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and four others.
The first volume describes how the philosopher John ...