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

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