Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674063864 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A zero sum game" according to Gerald A. Heverly. This book is a bit like Jim Clark's launch of A zero sum game This book is a bit like Jim Clark's launch of 3D computing. Before Labaree all ed writing was flat earth; two dimensional; pre-Columbian.Read an education writer and you'll hear about why we should change A in order to move B along toward nirvana (higher test scores;. D computing. Before Labaree all ed writing was flat earth; two dimensional; pre-Columbian.Read an education writer and you'll hear about why we should change A in order to move B along toward nirvana (higher test scores;. purchased for class Kindle Customer I was looking for a book for my grad students to read. This was the perfect choice as it triggered some interesting, thought provoking conversations on the nature of public schools in this country. I usually don't repeat such selections in my grad course, but I'm lea. Provocative Arguments but Weak Evidence As I started reading this book I thought it was a good four-star read due to its excellent discussion of the origins of the common school movement; the survey of the various reform movements; and the authors educational skepticism. As I read on the book's flaws knock
" --The Atlantic Monthly. "In this important bookthe skeptical, contrarian, and cheerfully pessimistic Stanford education professor Labaree trenchantly exposes the true purposes behindAmerican public schools and explains why the institution can never fulfill the dreams of those who use it or those who attempt to improve it
Yet as wave after wave of reform movements have shown, schools are extremely difficult to change. 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.” Ever since the common school movement of the nineteenth century, mass schooling has been seen as an essential solution to great social problems. 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. In practice, we want the best for our own.Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to