Ideology and Educational Reform: Themes and Theories in Public Education. (book reviews)

Stephen G. Salkever, Bryn Mawr College

David Paris has written a remarkable and eminently readable book that will interest a wide variety of political scientists. In it he manages in the space of a little over 200 pages to address with striking depth and accessibility two questions: the contemporary controversy over public education in the United States and the question of how political theory or philosophy should be related to political practice. This is thus simultaneously a book about public schooling in America and about how best to think about such schooling; its point of ...

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