"Teaching and Schooling in America"

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This paper reviews the book, "Teaching and Schooling in America", by Allan Ornstein, and looks at how, although subtitled "Teaching in a Pre and Post 9/11 World", this work is focuses more accurately on the changes in American culture that have taken place between the centuries and since September 2001. It explores how Ornstein's book is a wonderful and objective evaluation of the theory that has gone into constructing the current social educational paradigm.

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"In essence, the founders of our national educational system were faced with a multi-cultural society. Poles, Jews, French, English, puritans, Irish and more, all these individuals came to America with bits and pieces of the knowledge and skills which would be required of them to create a great, free, and unified society. In this evaluation, the founders of our educational system took the opposite approach to what today's educators select. Jefferson, Webster, Dewey, and more took in the multi-cultural society and worked to give them the tools by which they could form the American society. They did not bow to a multi-cultural agenda and reinforce the difference between the groups. To do so would be putting self interest ahead of national interest and the result would be squabbling groups of Irish, Polish, British and more who would each accuse the other of getting better treatment."

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