Below is a piece I wrote for a book that was published by Teachers College Press in 2022 -- Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy, edited by David Berliner and Carl Hermanns. Here’s a link to a pdf of my piece. I republished the essay in my 2024 book, The Ironies of Schooling. Here's … Continue reading Public Schooling as Social Welfare
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 