Someone Has to Fail

The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling

David F. Labaree

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$22.50 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674063860

Publication Date: 04/02/2012

Short

312 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

World

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Introduction
1. From Citizens to Consumers
2. Founding the American School System
3. The Progressive Effort to Reshape the System
4. Organization al Resistance to Reform
5. Classroom Resistance to Reform
6. Failing to Solve Social Problems
7. The Limits of School Learning
8. Living with the School Syndrome
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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