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Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society

Edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti
Yale, August 2003

A book edited by Common Good Education Advisory Board members Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti.

Book Description

In this book leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Contributors such as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Nathan Glazer, Robert Putnam, Jack Rakove, and Alan Wolfe discuss topics that range from the place of religion in public life to political conflict in a pluralist society to the problems of racial inequality.

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