Author: Thomas Dunlap
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Introductory Address at the Commencement of the Central High School, February 12, 1851
Author: Thomas Dunlap
Publisher:
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Publisher:
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Someone Has to Fail
Author: David F. Labaree
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063864
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all childrenÑbut all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way Òthis archetype of dysfunction works so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do.Ó 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, administratively limited school system makes reform difficult. At the same time, he argues, the choices of educational consumers have always overwhelmed top-down efforts at school reform. Individual families seek to use schools for their own purposesÑto pursue social opportunity, if they need it, and to preserve social advantage, if they have it. In principle, we want the best for all children. In practice, we want the best for our own. Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063864
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all childrenÑbut all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way Òthis archetype of dysfunction works so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do.Ó 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, administratively limited school system makes reform difficult. At the same time, he argues, the choices of educational consumers have always overwhelmed top-down efforts at school reform. Individual families seek to use schools for their own purposesÑto pursue social opportunity, if they need it, and to preserve social advantage, if they have it. In principle, we want the best for all children. In practice, we want the best for our own. Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.
American Education, 1622-1860
Author:
Publisher: Scholarly Title
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Historical Approaches
Author: Ronald G. Corwin
Publisher: JAI Press(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher: JAI Press(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The People's College
Author: David Fleming Labaree
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Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
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Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning
Author: David F. Labaree
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300078671
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
David Labaree claims that by thinking of education primarily as the route to individual advancement, we are defining it as a private good - a means of gaining a competitive advantage over other people. He endorses an alternative vision, one that defines education as a public good, providing society with benefits that can be collectively shared - for example, by producing citizens who are politically responsible and workers who are economically productive.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300078671
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
David Labaree claims that by thinking of education primarily as the route to individual advancement, we are defining it as a private good - a means of gaining a competitive advantage over other people. He endorses an alternative vision, one that defines education as a public good, providing society with benefits that can be collectively shared - for example, by producing citizens who are politically responsible and workers who are economically productive.
Lancasterian Schools in Philadelphia...
Author: Charles Calvert Ellis
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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School of the Republic, 1893-1943
Author: William Hafner Cornog
Publisher:
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Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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120 Years of American Education
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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