Download or read book American Education, Purpose and Promise written by Peter S. Hlebowitsh and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a fully-developed narrative on the philosophical/historic foundations of school, contemporary policy problems in education, and issues of classroom practice. The text deals with events and people that influenced curriculum formulations, with the focus fixed on questions about what we should teach, how we should teach, and why we should teach. Diversity is emphasized throughout the text. The authors use many real-life vignettes and examples and applications.