| The Stupid Country: How Australia Is Dismantling Public Education Contributor(s): Bonnor, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0868408069 ISBN-13: 9780868408064 Publisher: University of New South Wales Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2007 Annotation: With insight, passion, and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church, and ideology are combining to undermine public schools. The Stupid Country is not a one-sided defence of public education. But it challenges readers to consider whether the current path risks the health of public schools and everything they have created--prosperity, unity, stability--even, perhaps, democracy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Finance - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity - Political Science | Public Policy - General |
| Dewey: 379.121 |
| LCCN: 2007408458 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a sense of urgency, this book shows how government, anxious parents, the church and ideology are combining to undermine public schools. |