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Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools (Paperback)
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Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools (Paperback)
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Eminent historian and educator Larry Cuban provides a thorough
examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of
what constitutes educational success in the US. Cuban argues that
in the history of American education, standards of achievement and
inadequacy - as well as the reform efforts issuing from them - have
been neither stable nor consistent. Nor are these standards
untainted by political considerations. Rather, schools thrive or
decline based on a variety of factors, including social and
political dynamics, leadership in school districts and communities,
and policy improvisations. Chasing Success and Confronting Failure
in American Public Schools features profiles of two California high
schools, Social Justice Humanitas Academy and MetWest, that are
grappling with what it means to be successful (or failing) in the
current moment. Each school is expanding conventional views of
achievement beyond standard measures, such as test scores,
graduation rates, and college admissions. But even as these
schools' missions, sense of community, and curricula create an
innovative form of success, both remain bound by traditional
criteria set forth by district policymakers, practitioners, and
parents. Through his exemplary research, Cuban illustrates how
school reform is propelled by, and subject to, changing social and
political fortunes. He maintains that this understanding offers
educators an opportunity to re-envision school performance against
an American value system that too often rewards individual merit
and competitive capitalism.
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