Education

What do we learn? How do we learn? Who decides what we learn? What role does education play in sustaining society?

 

 

History Literature
  Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
Educational Trends in the U.S.  
19th Century
Thomas Jefferson
Horace Mann
Late 20th Century
ED Hirsch
Nation at Risk
Johnathan Kozol (NY, DC, NJ, St. Louis)
Bill and Melinda Gates
No Child Left Behind: White House Fact Sheet, White House News Report
Who is educated? Why and how? Who wants but does not receive an education? Why do they want it? Why don't or can't they get one? What do they do as a consequence? How would their access to education affect American society? What do those who receive an education do with it?
  Doing School - Denise Pope