{"id":391381,"date":"2019-01-02T22:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/common-schools-and-the-nationalistic-aims-of-public-education-in-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T22:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T21:16:37","slug":"common-schools-and-the-nationalistic-aims-of-public-education-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/common-schools-and-the-nationalistic-aims-of-public-education-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Schools and the Nationalistic Aims of Public Education in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>This article is part of a project that critically analyzes the historical and present day\u00a0purposes of U.S. public education. Related articles\u00a0focus on the history of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/08\/the-despotic-origins-of-u-s-public-secondary-education\/\"><em>Secondary Education<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0the undemocratic nature of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/05\/local-control-of-schools-a-fanciful-democratic-endeavor\/\"><em>Local Control<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and the finacialization of education\u00a0via <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/02\/impact-investing-and-venture-philanthropys-role-in-sowing-the-seeds-of-financial-opportunity\/\"><em>Impact Investing<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/11\/social-impact-bonds-the-titans-of-finance-as-the-altruistic-merchants-of-schooling-and-the-common-good\/\"><em>Social Impact Bonds\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/10\/education-technology-surveillance-and-americas-authoritarian-democracy\/\"><em>Personalized Learning.<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0The point of this project is to further expose the underlying social control function of U.S. public education and the interests it has\u00a0consistently\u00a0served over time, which cannot be extracted from the undemocratic nation-state it was designed \u00a0\u2013 and continually redesigned \u2013\u00a0to preserve.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>Over the past forty-years education reform policies intended to marketize, privatize and ultimately financialize the U.S. education system have spurred significant resistance across the political spectrum. Often galvanized by claims that reform policies undermine public education as a vital institution of U.S. democracy, many progressive public education advocates call to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/saveourschoolsmarch.org\/\">save our schools<\/a>\u201d and return them to their original common good design. Within this \u201cgood ole days\u201d or \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d narrative, romanticized notions of the original Horace Mann Common School movement are often referenced. This storyline is premised on the belief that the current attack on public education is therefore an attack on American democracy, which presupposes that the United States was founded as a democracy and struggled&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/01\/common-schools-and-the-nationalistic-aims-of-public-education-in-the-u-s\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is part of a project that critically analyzes the historical and present day\u00a0purposes of U.S. public education. Related articles\u00a0focus on the history of\u00a0Secondary Education,\u00a0the undemocratic nature of\u00a0Local Control\u00a0and the finacialization of education\u00a0via Impact Investing,\u00a0Social Impact Bonds\u00a0and\u00a0Personalized Learning.\u00a0The point of this project is to further expose the underlying social control function of U.S. public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}