| Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities:
The Contested Schoolhouse in Maritime Canada, 1850 to 2010
 Traditional schoolhouses and neighbourhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for 'big box' schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the logic of modernization, centralization and uniformity. In Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities author Paul W. Bennett explores the phenomenon of school closures, focusing on Maritime Canada from 1850 until the present day.
Here is a lively, stimulating book that examines the rise of common schooling from local, one-room schoolhouses that encouraged local democratic control through to the rise of "super-sized" schools governed by a vast bureaucracy that silences public participation. Though the public has not always remained silent, local 'save our schools' movements have not succeeded in halting the march of 'progress.'
Bennett sets out, in this colourful history of schools, to remind us of the principles that formed the basis of the public education system, and urges us to return to these principles in order to better serve the needs of our children and our communities.
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The Grammar School: Striving for Excellence in a Public School World
 The fascinating story of Canada’s only “Grammar School” is told for the first time in a new book written by Paul W. Bennett and published by Formac Publishing of Halifax. Entitled The Grammar School: Striving for Excellence in a Public School World, the book provides a rare look at the Halifax Grammar School’s titanic early struggle for survival and how its fate ebbed and flowed with changes in the Nova Scotia public education system.
Here’s a book for educators and anyone interested in the ongoing debate over the state of education.
A paperback edition was released September 1, 2009 and is currently available for $19.95 per copy in local Halifax bookstores. To purchase a personal copy online, log onto Chapter’s/Indigo and place your order.
A Special Limited Edition is also available through the Halifax Grammar School. You can order a hardback edition at $35.00 per copy, including taxes, with cheques payable to The Halifax Grammar School. To place an order, visit HGS or order online at thehgsshop@hgs.ns.ca
All proceeds from the book sales will be donated to the HGS Jubilee Endowment Fund.
To view a promotional flyer, click here, and to download the order form, click here.
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