This book profiles two countries which give strong support to parental choice in schooling (The Netherlands and Belgium) and two others that maintain a strong state role in controlling education (Germ
Through a historical studyof two very different pairs of European countries, Glenn illuminatesthe debate surroundingeducational freedom and a State-controlled model.>
State and Schools argues that the American educational model represents a third way of organizing the provision of schooling, and that this accounts for some of its strengths as well as some of its we
"An overview of efforts to provide formal schooling to the children of native peoples of North America, from seventeenth century New France to the residential Indian schools of the late nineteenth and
Tracing the?history of?black schooling?in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large?– and sometimes within black communities – which led to?black children being separate from the
"Political rhetoric and popular concern about the presence in the United States of immigrants from predominantly-Muslim societies has remained largely detached from the actual reality of the lives and
This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions are often better than government at meeting h
