Common Core - National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy

Ultimately, this lively and accessible book presents a compelling case that the greater threat to democratic education comes from centralized government control rather than from local education authorities.

About the author

Nicholas Tampio is an associate professor of political science at Fordham University. He is the author of Kantian Courage: Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory and Deleuze's Political Vision.

Summary

Ultimately, this lively and accessible book presents a compelling case that the greater threat to democratic education comes from centralized government control rather than from local education authorities.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Tampio, Nicholas (Associate Professor Tampio
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781421424637
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2463-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Curriculum planning & development, Constitution: government & the state, Primary & middle schools, Constitution: government and the state, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Standards (inc Common Core)