Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us
Why School? challenges today's narrow focus on high-stakes testing and economic competition. It also serves as a critical reminder of the broader purposes of school: the intellectual, social, civic, and ethical development of individuals.
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Why School? challenges today's narrow focus on high-stakes testing and economic competition. It also serves as a critical reminder of the broader purposes of school: the intellectual, social, civic, and ethical development of individuals.
Introduction Why School?1 In Search of a Fresh Language of Schooling2 Finding Our Way:The Experience of Education3 No Child Left Behind and the Spirit of Democratic Education4 Business Goes to School5 Politics and Knowledge6 Reflections on Intelligence in the Workplace and the Schoolhouse7 On Values,Work, and Opportunity8 Standards, Teaching, Learning9 Remediation at the University10 Re-mediating Remediation11 Soldiers in the Classroom12 A Language of Hope13 Finding the Public Good Through the Details of Classroom LifeConclusion: The Journey Back and ForwardNotes
\ From the Publisher"Once again at his most bold and brilliant Rose is a rare treasure in this dreary moment of debate along the dismal flatlands of education discourse. He brings us to the mountaintops."\ —Jonathan Kozol\ "Rose gives a larger sense of the interplay between what happens in the classroom and the world outside school [and] a capacious sense of what can happen within the interior world of the classroom."\ —The New York Review of Books\ "Rose puts into clear words what so many of us feel is lacking in our children’s education [He] recalibrates our thinking in this little book, the first step toward change."\ —Los Angeles Times\ "Wondrous."\ —In These Times\ "A compact and potent collection of essays."\ —The Nation\ \ \
