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Flags for the U.S. and the U.S. Department of Education fly outside the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C. Credit - Erin Scott—Bloomberg/Getty Images Today, Black students ...
Several years ago the National Assessment of Educational Progress released a frightening report on the state of social studies education in America: As of 2018 just 24% of eighth-grade students ...
In Democracy and Education he develops a philosophy of education based on democracy. He argues that while children should be active participants in the creation of their education, and while children must experience democracy to learn democracy, they need adult guidance to develop into responsible adults.
The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France.
For much of the 20th century, the dominant historiography, as exemplified by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868–1941) at Stanford, emphasized the rise of American education as a powerful force for literacy, democracy, and equal opportunity, and a firm basis for higher education and advanced research institutions. Cubberley argued that the ...
The National Center for Educational Statistics has released the "Nation's Report Card," which shows that American children are sliding in their reading skills and barely improving in mathematics.
In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group (its future sole representatives) and the maturity of the ...
Opinion: Democracy in America will only die if we let it. A recent point of contention in Pennsylvania was Gov. Josh Shapiro's unilateral decision to implement automatic voter registration in ...