Mira Debs

Diverse Families, Desirable Schools

Public Montessori in the Era of School Choice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a richly detailed study of public Montessori schools, which make up the largest group of progressive schools in the public sector. As public Montessori schools expand rapidly as alternatives to traditional public schools, the story of these schools, Mira Debs points out, is a microcosm of the broader conflicts around public school choice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781682533079
• ISBN-10: 1682533077
• Artikelnr.: 55895733

Autorenporträt

Mira Debs is the executive director of Yale University's Education Studies Program and a lecturer in the Sociology Department. Her research, teaching, and policy interests include school diversity, urban education, school choice, parent involvement, and progressive public schools. Her research has been published in Cultural Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, and the Journal of Montessori Research and featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Education Week, and the Christian Science Monitor. In addition to her research in Montessori schools, Dr. Debs taught high school for five years in Boston-area public schools. She is a founding board member of Elm City Montessori School and helped to start Montessori for Social Justice, a grassroots organization of Montessori educators.