TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hochschild,Jennifer L.
AU  - Scovronick,Nathan B.
TI  - The American dream and the public schools
SN  - 0195152786 (alk. paper)
AV  - LC 89 H685a 2003
U1  - 371.01/0973 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Education and state
KW  - United States
KW  - Educación y Estado
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Igualdad en la educación
KW  - Public schools
KW  - Escuelas públicas
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-290) and index; What Americans want from public schools
School desegregation
School finance reform
School reform
Choice
N2  - ... 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0613/2002027848-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2002027848-b.html
ER  -