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At a time when American public schools are increasingly re-segregating, underfunded, and as unequal as they were in earlier decades, this classic book can help readers grasp links between a slavery past and a dismal present for many people of colour.

Perhaps no one has done more than John Dewey to detail the inextricable relationship between education and democratic society. In Moral Principles in Education and My Pedagogic Creed, Dewey reminds readers of public schools' original purpose, and he identifies educational principles that either promote democratic goals.