Ebook: Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society

In this book leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Contributors such as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Nathan Glazer, Robert Putnam, Jack Rakove, and Alan Wolfe discuss topics that range from the place of religion in public life to political conflict in a pluralist society to the problems of racial inequality."This thought-provoking collection is a useful start for considering how our schools might move beyond the platitudes of multiculturalism."-Gary Rosen, New York Times Book ReviewI; "Several contributions offer trenchant insights on the relation among education, religion, and civic involvement . . . [and another] adds an invaluable international perspective to what is too often an insular debate about educational policies."-David Steiner, Journal of Education

Author Biography: Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education, School of Education, New York University, and holder of the Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. Joseph P. Viteritti is Research Professor of Public Policy, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. Professors Ravitch and Viteritti are coeditors of New Schools for a New Century, published by Yale University