Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling by Labaree, David F.
Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling by Labaree, David F.

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

What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we...
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Author: David F. Labaree
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Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling by Labaree, David F.

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

$98.15
Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling by Labaree, David F.

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

$98.15
Author: David F. Labaree
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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, mass schooling has been seen as an essential solution to great social problems. Yet as wave after wave of reform movements have shown, schools are extremely difficult to change. 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. Individual families seek to use schools for their own purposes--to pursue social opportunity, if they need it, and to preserve social advantage, if they have it. In principle, we want the best for all children. In practice, we want the best for our own.

Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.

Author: David F. Labaree
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04/02/2012
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780674063860

About the Author
David F. Labaree is Professor of Education at Stanford University.
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