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摘要: From curriculum standards and testing to school choice civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated United States. The Institutions Democracy, a collection essays by nation's leading scholars professionals, is designed inform debate stimulate change. In association with Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Public Policy Center University Pennsylvania, Democracy first series books commissioned enhance public understanding nature function democratic institutions. A national advisory board--including, among others, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, David Boren, John Brademas, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Gergen, Lee Hamilton--will guide vision project, which includes future volumes on press three branches government.Each essay addresses essential questions for policymakers, educators, anyone committed education. What role should play democracy? How has that changed through history? Have schools lost sight their responsibility teach civics citizenship? current debates about shaping this institution?Among contributors William Galston, Director Institute Philosophy Maryland;Clarence Stone, Professor Department Government Politics Maryland - College Park editor Changing Urban Education Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 (University Press Kansas, 1998).; Susan Moore Johnson, Pforzheimer Learning Teaching, Harvard University; Michael Johanek, Executive K-12 Professional Development, Board; Kathy Simon, co-executive director Coalition Essential Schools author Moral Questions Classroom (Yale Press, 2001); Jennifer Hochschild, Afro-American Studies Facing Up Dream: Race, Class, Soul Nation (Princeton 1995).