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Someone Has to Fail : The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling / David F. Labaree.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]Copyright date: 2012Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674058866
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.973 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. From Citizens to Consumers -- 2. Founding the American School System -- 3. The Progressive Effort to Reshape the System -- 4. Organizational Resistance to Reform -- 5. Classroom Resistance to Reform -- 6. Failing to Solve Social Problems -- 7. The Limits of School Learning -- 8. Living with the School Syndrome -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: 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.”
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. From Citizens to Consumers -- 2. Founding the American School System -- 3. The Progressive Effort to Reshape the System -- 4. Organizational Resistance to Reform -- 5. Classroom Resistance to Reform -- 6. Failing to Solve Social Problems -- 7. The Limits of School Learning -- 8. Living with the School Syndrome -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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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.”

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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