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The “Crisis” in America’s Public Schools

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From Martyrs to Murderers

Part of the book series: Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action ((CKCS))

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In the long-forgotten Alan Alda comedy Sweet liberty(Bregman et al., 1986) there is one revealing scene that reflects the shift in values that occurred between the classic era of Hollywood auteurs and the upstart generation of directors who gave us the 1970s’ and 1980s’ most enduring celluloid products. In the scene, a prize-winning American historian played by Alda confronts an archetypical hack Hollywood director about the inane adaptation of his best-selling book on the American Revolution.

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Dahlgren, R.L. (2017). The “Crisis” in America’s Public Schools. In: From Martyrs to Murderers. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-965-2_4

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