The culture brawl.(Book Review) (book review)

WHOSE AMERICA? CULTURE WARS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN * HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS * 307 PAGES * $29.95

IT SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISING THAT the public schools have long been the biggest battleground in America's culture wars: It's in the schools, after all, where the rubber of our pluralism and deepest social disagreements hits the road of public policy. Those wars have produced great piles of literature, much of it polemical, declaring that some new course, a new set of history books, a new court decision--school desegregation, bans on school-sponsored prayer--is ...

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