1. Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict
- Author:
- Neal McCluskey
- Publication Date:
- 01-2007
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- The Cato Institute
- Abstract:
- It is all too often assumed that public education as we typically think of it today—schooling provided and controlled by government—constitutes the “foundation of American democracy.” Such schooling, it is argued, has taken people of immensely varied ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds and molded them into Americans who are both unified and free. Public schooling, it is assumed, has been the gentle flame beneath the great American melting pot.
- Topic:
- Conflict Resolution, Civil Society, Demographics, and Education
- Political Geography:
- America