Sheila Curran Bernard
Author of School: The Story of American Public Education
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- Canonical name
- Bernard, Sheila Curran
- Birthdate
- 1957-08-08
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Boston University (BS|communication)
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- filmmaker
- Organizations
- University of Albany
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- Works
- 6
- Members
- 302
- Popularity
- #77,842
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 33
- Languages
- 1
The history of the public school is interesting, but as soon as the state(s) made it mandatory and took the rights away from the parents it was never "right" in any form.
The book offers a lot of what happened, what didn't work, no why and toward the end it talked about schools trying new alternatives to teaching, but again, the political opinion in the book is skewed and offering a $25k voucher for every kid isn't the answer.
The public schools are already too concerned about the funding and not putting the students as the top priority.
Isn't that what a school should be about? The students?… (more)