| Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning Subjects: Education -- United States -- Philosophy; Education -- United States -- History; Educators -- United States -- History; Educational change -- United States -- History; Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today's flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant American schools has shifted away from families and communities to larger, more centralized entities--initially to bigger districts and eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal government. |