“WHY SCHOOL?”

“Why School?”

“Why school?”

Introduction

In his book Why school? Reclaiming education for all of us, Mike Rose, invite us to reconsider public education in terms of what it could be for our children and to examine what some of our existing policies have done to limit those possibilities for all of us. Rose draws on his forty years of experience as an educator from kindergarten to adult literacy, as well as his present position as a faculty member of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, to inform this thoughtful discussion. In his appeal for “big-hearted social policy and ...