{"product_id":"schoolhouse-burning-9781541774384","title":"Schoolhouse Burning","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious advocate, shows how major democratic and constitutional developments are intimately linked to the expansion of public education throughout American history. \u003ci\u003eSchoolhouse Burning\u003c\/i\u003e is grounded in pathbreaking, original research into how the nation, in its infancy, built itself around public education and, following the Civil War, enshrined education as a constitutional right that forever changed the trajectory of our democracy. Public education, alongside the right to vote, was the cornerstone of the recovery of the war-torn nation.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Today's current schooling trends -- the declining commitment to properly fund public education and the well-financed political agenda to expand vouchers and charter schools -- present a major assault on the democratic norms that public education represents and risk undermining one of the unique accomplishments of American society.","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67699789201586,"sku":"9781541774384","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/9781541774384.jpg?v=1791993755","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/schoolhouse-burning-9781541774384","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}