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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Achieving Public Schools
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Abowitz, Kathleen Knight – Educational Theory, 2011
Public schools are functionally provided through structural arrangements such as government funding, but public schools are achieved in substance, in part, through local governance. In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz explains the bifocal nature of achieving public schools; that is, that schools are both subject to the unitary Public compact of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Instructional Leadership, Educational Administration
Qualifying My Faith in the Common School Ideal: A Normative Framework for Democratic Justice
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Abowitz, Kathleen Knight – Educational Theory, 2010
In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz makes the case that charter schooling can enable multiple publics to develop and create educational visions. Charter schooling policies can enable these publics to pursue these visions and agendas on behalf of both public and common educational goals as well as goals associated with particular identities and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Objectives, Agenda Setting, Goal Orientation
On the Public and Civic Purposes of Education
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Abowitz, Kathleen Knight – Educational Theory, 2008
In this review essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz discusses three recent books related to democratic public life and schooling: Susan H. Fuhrman and Marvin Lazerson's "The Public Schools," Walter C. Parker's "Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life," and Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg's "Education and Citizenship in…
Descriptors: Democracy, Public Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Heteroglossia and Philosophers of Education.
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Abowitz, Kathleen Knight – Educational Theory, 2002
Accepts the premise of Rene Arcilla's article, "Why Aren't Philosophers and Educators Speaking to One Another?" asking how philosophers of education of a Deweyan character can occupy the intermediary position between philosophy and education with their different languages, contexts, and concerns. The essay uses examples from the work of Cornel…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Charter Schooling and Social Justice.
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Abowitz, Kathleen Knight – Educational Theory, 2001
Uses Nancy Fraser's theory to provide a rationale for charter schooling, introducing the social justice and democratic possibilities inherent in some charter school proposals. The article argues that Fraser's notion of multiple public spheres, combined with her strategies of economic redistribution and cultural recognition, provide a compelling…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Democracy, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
Reclaiming Community.
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Abowitz, Kathleen Knight – Educational Theory, 1999
Argues to reclaim the term "community," suggesting a conception of learning communities that values diversity, dialogical and material interaction, conflict, and complete member participation. After analyzing dichotomies of difference and community using Fraser's, Young's, and Ellsworth's writings, the paper examines feminist pragmatism in…
Descriptors: Community, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Faculty)