{"product_id":"schoolhouse-burning-public-education-and-the-assault-on-american-democracy","title":"Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublic education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate, shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. \u003ci\u003eSchoolhouse Burning \u003c\/i\u003eis grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how the nation, in its infancy, built itself around public education and, following the Civil War, enshrined education as a constitutional right that forever changed the trajectory of our democracy. Public education, alongside the right to vote, was the cornerstone of the recovery of the war-torn nation.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eToday's current schooling trends -- the declining commitment to properly fund public education and the well-financed political agenda to expand vouchers and charter schools -- present a major assault on the democratic norms that public education represents and risk undermining one of the unique accomplishments of American society.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Public Affairs","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985435725904,"sku":"9781541788442B","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/schoolhouse-burning-public-education-and-the-assault-on-american-democracy","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}