A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting Public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy In These Schools Belong to You and Me , MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an ``apprenticeship for citizenship in a democracy.`` Thr.
A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting Public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy In These Schools Belong to You and Me , MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an ``apprenticeship for citizenship in a democracy.`` Thr