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THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
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- 9780195152784
- Publication Year
- 2003
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- English
- Publication Name
- The American Dream and the Public Schools
- Item Height
- 242mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Item Width
- 162mm
- Subject
- Sociology
- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Why is education policy so contentious? Do conflicts over specific issues in schooling have anything in common? Are there general principles that can help us resolve these disputes? In this book the authors find the source of many debates over schooling in the multiple goals and internal contradictions of the national ideology we call the American dream. They also propose a framework for helping Americans get past acrimonious debates in order to help all children learn. The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including 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, rooted in the American dream, 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 policies to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class, and too often conflict, unnecessarily, with policies that are intended to benefit everyone. The book also examines issues such as creationism and Afrocentrism, where the disputes lie between those who attack the validity of the American dream and those who believe that such a challenge has no place in the public schools. At the end of the book, the authors examine the impact of our nation's rapid racial and ethnic transformation on the pursuit of all of these goals, and they propose ways to make public education work better to help all children succeed and become the citizens we need.
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The American Dream and the Public Schools
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English
Subject
Sociology
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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242mm
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162mm
Item Weight
637g
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