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

by David Labaree and 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 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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674063864

ISBN13:9780674063860

Release Date:April 2012

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"

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Education Education & Reference Education Theory Educational Philosophy Philosophy & Social Aspects Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Public Affairs & Policy Public Policy

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