Gary Fenstermacher: Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan; Dean of College of Education, U of A; Scholarly work in philosophy of education and educational policy studies
Wednesday, April 9, 2025,
2:30pm – 3:30pm,
ASA Koffler Great Room and Zoom
This is Part 2 of a 3-part series in which Gary Fenstermacher describes the formation and eventual decline of Public schooling in the United States, along with its effect on the vital connections between education and democracy. The first part covered the early formation of schooling which began with the Massachusetts Bay Colony Act of 1647 and progressed up to the mid-twentieth Century.
Part 2 begins with the launch of Sputnik and the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Brown vs Board of Education. This era brings major shifts in the purposes of public schooling as well as in how schools are funded and who governs them. These shifts result in growing dissatisfaction with public schools, along with the emergence of alternatives to traditional models of public schooling.
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