Keeping the Public in Public Education

by Rick Salutin

Overview

Is there anything public schools do that no other form of education can? Only this: Simply by being what they are, they can teach kids about the society they live in. That's because public schools must let everyone in. "What's unique about public education isn't the education part, it's the public." Rick Salutin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780987831736
Publisher:	Linda Leith Publishing
Publication date:	05/05/2012
Series:	Singles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	635 KB

About the Author

Rick Salutin has written award-winning drama Les Canadiens, 1837: The Farmer's Revolt, fiction A Man of Little Faith and journalism (op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail from 1991-2010 and the Toronto Star since then). He has taught almost continuously, in some manner, since he was about 15, including a course in the Canadian Studies program at University College, the University of Toronto, since 1978.

Read an Excerpt

“Is there anything public schools do that no other form of education can? Only this: Simply by being what they are, they can teach kids about the society they live in. That's because public schools must let everyone in. What's unique about public education isn't the education part, it's the public.” – Rick Salutin

Editorial Reviews

"Teachers will find this little book heartening, administrators will feel their problems are recognized, and those of us who believe that public education is one of Canada's greatest gifts to its citizenry will now have new tools to back up our claims. At a time when many of our public institutions are being dismissed as unnecessary, inefficient, or the product of outdated lefty beliefs, Salutin comes out swinging in favour of public education and against the trends toward privatization, corporatization, the free market, and deregulation that he sees threatening it. In this series of articles (originally published in theToronto Star in 2011), he looks at testing and accountability, school choice, equity, teaching, and what defines the 'public' in public education. He argues that society's current love-in with the free market is based more on faith than on evidence, and he urges us to protect public education from the ever-encroaching 'religion' of privatization." Education Canada, Summer 2012

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