Review of Common sense about Common Core: Overcoming education’s politics

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  • Johann N. Neem Western Washington University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v24.2253

Author Biography

Johann N. Neem, Western Washington University

Johann N. Neem is Professor of History at Western Washington University and a Senior Fellow of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is author of Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).

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Published

2017-10-18

How to Cite

Neem, J. N. (2017). Review of Common sense about Common Core: Overcoming education’s politics. Education Review, 24. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v24.2253

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Book reviews