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Reconstructing the common good in education : coping with intractable American dilemmas

Title
Reconstructing the common good in education : coping with intractable American dilemmas / edited by Larry Cuban and Dorothy Shipps.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Cuban, Larry.
  • Shipps, Dorothy.
Description
xvi, 283 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Deutschland Bundesrepublik Grenzschutzkommando Mitte Schule
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Education > United States
  • Educational change > United States
  • Education > Social aspects > United States
  • Education
  • Education > Social aspects
  • Educational change
  • Bildungsauftrag
  • Gemeinwohl
  • Öffentliche Erziehung
  • Öffentliche Schule
  • United States
  • USA
Note
  • In honor of David B. Tyack, upon his retirement from the Vida Jacks Professorship of Education at Stanford University in September 2000.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-274) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Ways of seeing the common good in public education: the past informing the present. Public schools and the elusive search for the common good / William J. Reese ; Turning points: reconstruction and the growth of national influence in education / Ted Mitchell ; "There is no escape ... from the ogre of indoctrination": George Counts and the civic dilemmas of democratic educators / Daniel Perlstein ; "No one here to put us down": Hispano education in a southern Colorado community, 1920-1963 / Rubén Donato ; Echoes of corporate influence: managing away urban school troubles / Dorothy Shipps -- pt. 2. Ways of seeing the common good in public education: social and political implications. No exit: public education as an inescapably public good / David F. Labaree ; Bureaucracy left and right: thinking about the one best system / Harvey Kantor, Robert Lowe ; Why is it so hard to get "good" schools? / Larry Cuban -- pt. 3. Uncommon ways of seeing the common good. Civic friendship: an Aristotelian perspective / Elisabeth Hansot ; Devotion and ambiguity in the struggles of a poor mother and her family: New York City, 1918-1919 / Michael B. Katz ; Reflections on education as transcendence / John Meyer.
ISBN
  • 0804738629
  • 9780804738620
  • 0804738637
  • 9780804738637
LCCN
00027258
OCLC
  • ocm43567461
  • 43567461
  • SCSB-8891463
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library