Michael J. Feuer (WASHINGTON, DC) has been dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University since 2010, following a 25-year career at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Academy of Sciences. He has held faculty positions at Drexel University and Georgetown, and is a past president of the National Academy of Education. Feuer is the author of The Rising Price of Objectivity: Philanthropy, Government, and the Future of Education Research and Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education.
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Introduction [Prolog] 1. Free to Bruise: Political Economy and the Limits of Liberty 2. Civics as Process and Product: Origins and Opportunities 3. Curricular Options: Contents and Discontents 4. Beyond the Schoolhouse: A Collective Responsibility Epilog: "Commons" Sense for Civic Education References Acknowledgments Index