Alan Peshkin: 2 books

Book cover of Permissible Advantage?

Permissible Advantage?

The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling

by Alan Peshkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000

This study of Edgewood Academy--a private, elite college preparatory high school--examines what moral choices look like when they are made by the participants in an exceptionally wealthy school, and what the very existence of a privileged school indicates about American society. It extends Peshkin's...
Book cover of Places of Memory

Places of Memory

Whiteman's Schools and Native American Communities

by Alan Peshkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

While visiting New Mexico, the author was struck with the opportunity the state presents to explore the school-community relationship in rural, religious, and multiethnic sociocultural settings. In New Mexico, the school-community relationship can be learned within four major culture groups -- Indian,...
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