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Reconstructing the Common Good in Education - Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas (Hardcover)
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Reconstructing the Common Good in Education - Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas (Hardcover)
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For almost two centuries, Americans expected that their public
schools would cultivate the personal, moral, and social development
of individual students, create citizens, and bind diverse groups
into one nation. Since the 1980s, however, a new generation of
school reformers has been intent on using schools to solve the
nation's economic problems. An economic justification for public
schools--equipping students with marketable skills to help the
nation compete in a global, information-based
workplace--overwhelmed other historically accepted purposes for
tax-supported public schools.
Private sector management has become the model for public school
systems as schools and districts are "downsized," "restructured,"
and "outsourced." Recent reform proposals have called for
government-funded vouchers to send children to private schools, the
creation of self-governing charter schools, the contracting of
schools to private entrepreneurs, and the partnerships with the
business community in promoting new information technologies. But
if there is a shared national purpose for education, should it be
oriented only toward enhancing the country's economic success? Is
everything public for sale? Are the interests of individuals or
selected groups overwhelming the common good that the founders of
tax-supported public schools so fervently sought?
This volume explores the ongoing debates about what constitutes the
common good in American public education, assessing the
long-standing tensions between shared purposes and individual
interests in schooling. It shows how recent school reform efforts,
driven by economic concerns, have worsened the conflict between the
legitimate interests of individuals and society as a whole, and
demonstrates that reconstructing the common good envisioned by the
founders of public education in the United States remains essential
and unfinished work.
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