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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 The First Triangle: The Problems of Educational Reform; Crisis, Consensus, and Optimism; Current Reforms, Perennial Obstacles; Themes and Reforms; Notes; 2 The ""Theoretical Mystique"" and Thematic Analysis; Liberal Democracy and ""Neutral"" Theories; External Neutrality; Internal Neutrality; Theories and Themes; Thematic Analysis and Public Education; Notes; 3 The Common School Theme: Moral Education and the ""Tie that Binds; Whose Moral Values. . . What Religion? |
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Variations on a Theme: ""What?"" and ""How Far?The ""Academic"" Variation: Reform, Discipline, and Academics; Moral Education and Consensus; Moral Virtues; Intellectual Virtues; Culture, Consensus, and Program; Other Difficulties, Other Themes; Notes; 4 Schools, Scapegoats, and Skills: Educational Reform and the Economy; Head"" and ""Hand"": The Comprehensive School; Variations on a Theme: Training and Thinking; Education and Macroeconomics: Levers, Supply, and Demand; Microeconomics: Skills, Schools, and Dollars; Continuing Dilemmas: Human Capital and Equal Opportunity; Notes |
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5 ""Clientelism"" and the Odd Couple: Choice and Welfare in EducationClients and Needs: Families, Communities, ""IEPs, "" and Choice; What?"" and ""How Far?"": Variations on the Clientelism Theme; Choice: Educational Markets; The Welfare State in the Neighborhood: The ""Wisest Parent""?; Public Choice and Public Welfare; Notes; 6 The Future of Educational Reform: Political Choices and School Culture; Ideas: ""Overlapping Consensus"" and Themes; Toward a (New) Common School; Interests and Institutions: Who Really Wants Reform?; The Task(s) of Political Theory Revisited; Notes |
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About the Book and AuthorIndex |
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Print version record |
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Education -- United States -- Philosophy
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Educational change -- United States -- Philosophy
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Public schools -- United States
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Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States
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Education -- Aims and objectives.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Educational change -- Philosophy.
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Public schools.
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Schulreform
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Ideologie
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United States.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429690891 |
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0429690894 |
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9780429710902 |
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0429710909 |
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