Description: Further DetailsTitle: Reconstructing the Common Good in EducationCondition: NewEAN: 9780804738637ISBN: 9780804738637Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/01/2000Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 408gContributor: Dorothy Shipps (Edited by), Larry Cuban (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Coping with Intractable American DilemmasISBN-10: 0804738637Description: For almost two centuries, Americans expected that their public schools would cultivate the personal, moral, and social development of individual students, create citizens, and bind diverse groups into one nation. Since the 1980s, however, a new generation of school reformers has been intent on using schools to solve the nation’s economic problems. An economic justification for public schools—equipping students with marketable skills to help the nation compete in a global, information-based workplace—overwhelmed other historically accepted purposes for tax-supported public schools. Private sector management has become the model for public school systems as schools and districts are “downsized,” “restructured,” and “outsourced.” Recent reform proposals have called for government-funded vouchers to send children to private schools, the creation of self-governing charter schools, the contracting of schools to private entrepreneurs, and the partnerships with the business community in promoting new information technologies. But if there is a shared national purpose for education, should it be oriented only toward enhancing the country’s economic success? Is everything public for sale? Are the interests of individuals or selected groups overwhelming the common good that the founders of tax-supported public schools so fervently sought? This volume explores the ongoing debates about what constitutes the common good in American public education, assessing the long-standing tensions between shared purposes and individual interests in schooling. It shows how recent school reform efforts, driven by economic concerns, have worsened the conflict between the legitimate interests of individuals and society as a whole, and demonstrates that reconstructing the common good envisioned by the founders of public education in the United States remains essential and unfinished work.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Children's Learning & EducationAuthor: Dorothy Shipps, Larry CubanType: Care & CounsellingRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Reconstructing the Common Good in Education
Title: Reconstructing the Common Good in Education
EAN: 9780804738637
ISBN: 9780804738637
Release Date: 05/01/2000
Release Year: 2000
Contributor: Larry Cuban (Edited by)
Subtitle: Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas
ISBN-10: 0804738637
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Children's Learning & Education
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Reconstructing the Common Good in Education : Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Educational Policy & Reform / General, General, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Dorothy Shipps
Subject Area: Education
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
