Reconstructing the common good in education : coping with intractable American dilemmas / edited by Larry Cuban and Dorothy Shipps.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuban, Larry.

Shipps, Dorothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States.

Education.

United States.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Education--Social aspects.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]

Summary:

What constitutes the common good in American public education? This volume explores the ongoing debate between those who expect schools to cultivate citizens through personal, moral, and social development, as well as to bind diverse groups into one nation, and a new generation of school reformers intent on using schools to solve the nation' s economic problems by equipping students with marketable skills.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Ways of seeing the common good in public education: the past informing the present. Public schools and the elusive search for the common good / William J. Reese ; Turning points: reconstruction and the growth of national influence in education / Ted Mitchell ; "There is no escape...from the ogre of indoctrination": George counts the civic dilemmas of democratic educators / Daniel Perlstein ; "No one here to put us down": Hispano education in a southern Colorado cummunity, 1920-1963 / Rubén Donato ; Echoes of corporate influence: managing away urban school troubles / Dorothy Shipps

Pt. 2. Ways of seeing the common good in public education: social and political implications. No exit: public education as an inescapably public good / David F. Labaree ; Bureaucracy left and right: thinking about the one best system / Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe ; Why is it so hard to get "good" schools? / Larry Cuban

Pt. 3. Uncommon ways of seeing the common good. Civic friendship: an Aristotelian perspective / Elisabeth Hansot ; Devotion and ambiguity in the struggles of a poor mother and her family: New York City, 1918-1919 / Michael B. Katz ; Reflections on education as transcendence / John Meyer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-274) and index.

ISBN:

0804738629

0804738637

OCLC:

43567461