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Educational Goods - Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making (Hardcover)
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Educational Goods - Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making (Hardcover)
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We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved.
But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should
be looking for from education what exactly should those who make
decisions be trying to achieve? In Educational Goods, two
philosophers and two social scientists address this very question.
They begin by broadening the language for talking about educational
policy: "educational goods" are the knowledge, skills, and
attitudes that children develop for their own benefit and that of
others; "childhood goods" are the valuable experiences and freedoms
that make childhood a distinct phase of life. Balancing those, and
understanding that not all of them can be measured through
traditional methods, is a key first step. From there, they show how
to think clearly about how those goods are distributed and propose
a method for combining values and evidence to reach decisions. They
conclude by showing the method in action, offering detailed
accounts of how it might be applied in school finance,
accountability, and choice. The result is a reimagining of our
decision making about schools, one that will sharpen our thinking
on familiar debates and push us toward better outcomes.
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