Someone Has to Fail The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling

Name: Someone Has to Fail The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
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ISBN: 9780674063860

ISBN-10: 0674063864

ISBN-13: 9780674063860

Edition: 2010

Authors: David F. Labaree

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What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children—but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way “this archetype of dysfunction works so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do.”Ever since the common school movement of the nineteenth century, mass schooling has been seen as an essential solution to great social problems. Yet as wave after wave of reform movements have shown, schools are extremely difficult to change. Labaree shows how the very organization of the locally controlled,…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction



From Citizens to Consumers



Founding the American School System



The Progressive Effort to Reshape the System



Organizational Resistance to Reform



Classroom Resistance to Reform



Failing to Solve Social Problems



The Limits of School Learning



Living with the School Syndrome


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index