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LABAREE, DAVID
"Public Goods, Private Goods: The…
JIGSAW GROUP MAP
LABAREE, DAVID
"Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle Over Educational Goals."
Three Goals of Education
2. Social Efficiency
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"education is seen as a public good designed to prepare workers to fill structurally necessary market roles" (p. 42)
"our economic well-being depends on our ability to prepare the young to carry out useful economic roles" (p. 42)
3. Social Mobility
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"education is seen as a private good designed to prepare individuals for successful competition for the more desirable market roles" (p. 42)
"education is a commodity ... to provide individual students with a competitive advantage in the struggle for desirable social positions" (p. 42)
1. Democratic Equality
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"education is seen as a public good, designed to prepare people for political roles" (p. 42)
"a democratic society cannot persist unless it prepares all of its young with equal care to take on the full responsibilities of citizenship" (p. 42)
Question: "How can schools realistically be expected to promote all of these goals at the same time and remain coherent and effective? (p. 43)
Question: "how can they promote one at the expense of the others without eliminating important outcomes and abandoning important constituencies?" (p. 43)
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LABAREE, Part II
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Three Goals of Education
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3--Social Mobility
"schools should provide students with the educational credentials they need in order to get ahead in this structure (or to maintain their current position" (p. 50)
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