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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Demise, of the Public in Public Schools -- 2 Understanding the Rise of Neoliberal Policies -- 3 Governor Cuomo and the Neoliberal Attack on Public Schools, Teachers, and Unions -- 4 The Gates Foundation, Pearson, and Arne Duncan -- 5 Manufactured and Real Crises: Rethinking Education and Capitalism -- Index.

In 1932 George Counts, in his speech ""Dare the School Build a New Social Order?"" explicitly challenged teachers to develop a democratic, socialistic society. In Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change Drs. Hursh and Ross take seriously the question of what social studies educators can do to help build a democratic society in the face of current antidemocratic impulses of greed, individualism and intolerance. The essays in this book respond to Counts' question in theoretical analyses of education and society, historical analyses of efforts since Counts' challenge, and pr

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