TY - BOOK AU - Rose,Mike TI - Why school? : : reclaiming education for all of us SN - 9781595589385 AV - LA 217.2 R797w 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - New York ; , London : PB - The New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, KW - Escuelas públicas KW - Estados Unidos KW - Educación KW - Fines y objetivos KW - Educación y democracia N1 - Why school? In search of a fresh language of schooling Finding our way: the experience of education No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and the spirit of democratic education Business goes to school Intelligence in the workplace and the schoolhouse On values, work, and opportunity Being careful about character Reflections on standards, teaching, and learning MOOCs and other wonders: education and high-tech utopia Re-mediating remediation Soldiers in the classroom The inner life of the poor Finding the public good through the details of classroom life The journey back and forward Writing about school N2 - Why School? is a little book driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about school, success, and opportunity in a democratic society? Rose draws on forty years of teaching and research to answer these questions. The paperback edition includes brand-new chapters on character education, MOOCs and other technologies, and poverty; a new afterword on how to write about school; and expanded chapters that bring the book into the current moment of Race to the Top and Common Core Standards.--Back cover ER -