Smells Like School Spirit.(PBS documentary 'School: The Story of American Public Education')(Review)
American Prospect, The, September, 2001 by SCHRAG, PETER
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> "NO OTHER PEOPLE," wrote Henry Steele Commager, the most widely read American historian of the generation following World War II, "ever demanded so much of schools and of education as have the American. None other was ever so well served by its schools and its educators." A lot of us, bombarded by the educational controversies and the ongoing schools-are-failing rhetoric of the past two decades, may now find Commager's words a little quaint--even preposterous--either because he was writing about some long-gone golden age or because he got carried away by his own ...
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