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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Labaree, David F.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of 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

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