"La experiencia estudiantil resulta hoy un objeto de renovado interés académico. Tanto la trayectoria de los movimientos estudiantiles como la situación de los estudiantes desde el punto de vista institucional, reclaman una nueva mirada en un período de expansión y complejización de la educación superior. Este libro ofrece al lector un conjunto de indagaciones acerca de los estudiantes universitarios, referidas al pasado reciente y al tiempo presente, poniendo en juego preguntas que giran en torno a las visiones políticas y pedagógicas de distintos actores, a la vida cotidiana de las facultades y a las narrativas juveniles. Algunas de las indagaciones constituyen estudios históricos sobre el caso de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, que ahondan en miradas sobre el crecimiento de la población estudiantil y en las concepciones emergentes acerca de papel de los estudiantes en las instituciones y en la política, a partir del análisis documental y de la memoria oral. Otras constituyen abordajes de las experiencias estudiantiles en los años recientes, en el marco de distintas universidades y culturas disciplinarias, a través del enfoque biográfico. El libro se enriquece con un texto de Pedro Krotsch que ofrece una mirada crítica de las transformaciones universitarias del siglo XX. En forma global, el libro incursiona en los acontecimientos de un pasado reciente y en las coyunturas de los últimos años, buscando reconstruir la trama de discursos sobre la formación y la posición de los estudiantes en las universidades públicas en la Argentina"--p.4 of cover.

Washington is at crossroads on education policy. It can continue down the path of top-down accountability; devolve power to states and districts, thereby returning to the status quo of the last century; or rethink the fundamentals and do something different. In Choice and Federalism: Rethinking the Federal Role in Education, the Koret Task Force on Education proposes a new path in which Washington releases states from top-down accountability in exchange for unleashing the ability of parents to engage in informed choices of schools for their children and by causing those choices to generate competitive pressures on the providers of education services.
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This book exposes a very real threat to America's future--a threat far more serious than any foreign enemy could ever pose. The most serious danger that the United States now faces, says William Damon, is that our country's future may end up in the hands of a citizenry incapable of sustaining the liberty that has been America's most precious legacy. In Failing Liberty 101, he argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens--to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems--the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good--and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behavior of large portions of the youth population in our country today. The author places the blame squarely on today's grown-up generation of parents, educators, opinion leaders, and public officials for failing to prepare young Americans properly for futures as citizens in a free society. He explains why, unless we begin to pay attention and meet our challenge as stewards of a priceless heritage, our nation and the future prospects of all individuals dwelling here in years to come will suffer, moving away from liberty and towards despotism--and this movement will be both inevitable and astonishingly quick.
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• Patriotic purposes: public schools and the education of citizens / Julie Reuben
• The governance of public education / Thomas Corcoran and Margaret Goertz
• The politics of polarization: education debates in the United States / William Galston
• Schooling citizens for evolving democracies / Bruce Fuller and Arun Rasiah
• Classroom deliberations / Katherine Simon
• The state of civic education: preparing citizens in an era of accountability / Michael C. Johanek and John Puckett
• Working in schools / Susan Moore Johnson
• Youth, media, and citizenship / John Merrow
• Civic capacity: what, why, and from whence / Clarence N. Stone
• The education of democratic citizens: citizen mobilization and public education / Wendy D. Puriefoy
• The elusive ideal: civic learning and higher education / Matthew Hartley and Elizabeth Hollander
• Agency, reciprocity, and accountability in democratic education / Richard F. Elmore
• Demographic change and democratic education / Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick
• School choice and the democratic ideal of free common schools / Paul R Dimond
• Afterword: democratic disagreement and civic education / Amy Gutmann.

"This volume is a collection of essays by leading scholars and educators that address the major challenges facing public education and suggest changes to keep the institution vital to the maintenance of an informed citizenry. Each chapter explores the ways in which the public schools are linked to the preparation of citizens, debates the concerns and disagreements, and proposes the possibilities for improvement. These proposals include recommendations that more schools make institutional commitments to civic participation in order to produce more civic-minded individuals. Further, international public school systems are analyzed, and some of their methods are considered for adoption into the American model."--Jacket.

"The contents of this booklet are drawn from the book 'Within our reach: how America can educate every child' published by Rowwman & Littlefield publishers, in association with the Hoover Institution. The booklet is an executive summary of the findings and recommendations of the Koret Task Force on the NCLB issue"--Page 4 of cover.

The authors provide a unique perspective on what is needed to make character education an effective, lasting part of our educational agenda.
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