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Author Hochschild, Jennifer L., 1950- author.

Title The American dream and the public schools / Jennifer L. Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2004, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages)
Contents What Americans want from public schools -- School desegregation -- School finance reform -- School reform -- Choice -- Separation and inclusion -- Challenging the American dream -- Public schools in the new America
Summary ... Examines ... 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 ... 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 polices to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class ... The book also examines issues such as creationism and afrocentrism ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-290) and index
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Subject Education and state -- United States
Educational equalization -- United States
Public schools -- United States
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Education and state
Educational equalization
Public schools
Schulpolitik
Öffentliche Schule
Openbaar onderwijs.
Sociale ongelijkheid.
Onderwijsbeleid.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Scovronick, Nathan B., 1945- author.
ISBN 9780198034865
0198034865
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9781602565227
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