Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling

by David Labaree and David F. Labaree

Book Overview

What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children--but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way "this archetype of dysfunction works so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do."

Ever since the common school movement of the nineteenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674063864
• ISBN13: 9780674063860
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"