The American dream and the public schools / Jennifer L. Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick.

By:

Hochschild, Jennifer L, 1950-

Contributor(s):

Scovronick, Nathan B, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: xii, 301 pages ; 25 cmISBN:

0195152786 (alk. paper)
9780195152784

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

371.01/0973

LOC classification:

LC 89 H685a 2003

Online resources:

Contents:

What Americans want from public schools School desegregation School finance reform School reform Choice

Summary: ... Examines ... desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, multicultural education, and ability grouping. These seem to be separate problems, but much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing: an apparent conflict ... between policies designed to promote each student's ability to pursue success and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how polices to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class ... The book also examines issues such as creationism and afrocentrism ..

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-290) and index.

What Americans want from public schools
School desegregation
School finance reform
School reform
Choice

... Examines ... desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, multicultural education, and ability grouping. These seem to be separate problems, but much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing: an apparent conflict ... between policies designed to promote each student's ability to pursue success and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how polices to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class ... The book also examines issues such as creationism and afrocentrism ..

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