Document Type
Book Review
Abstract
There isn’t much room for dissenters in public education today – whether they are respectful or not. Playing and/or living by the rules has become shorthand for a philosophy of school reform that has but one major goal: raising standardized test scores. Embarrassed by what Obama has called in a recent State of the Union Address this “Sputnik moment” (Obama, 2011) -- where American schools and students are ranking far below other countries – the language of school reform has become consistently sterner and less tolerant of contrasting viewpoints. As Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been quoted:
The path to success has never been clearer. The educational reform movement is not a table where we all sit around and talk. It’s a train that is leaving the station, gaining speed, momentum and direction. It is time for everyone, everywhere to get on board. (Duncan, 2009)
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
Ginsberg, Alice
(2012)
"American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community By Sam Chaltain,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 28.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol6/iss1/28
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Educational leadership--United States--History; School management and organization--United States--History; Schools--United States--History; Democracy and education--United States
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Chaltain, Sam
Geographic Coverage
United States
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text