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Labaree Part II: The Competing Goals of Education and their Interactions…
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"Much of the visible conflict about American education has boiled down to this difference between mobility and efficiency."
As equality increases, efficiency tends to decrease and vice versa
Social mobility and democratic equality agree that everyone should have the equal opportunity to begin with
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Labaree's opinions:
""All of this pushing and pulling leaves educational institutions in a no-win situation, for, whichever way they move, they are goring someone's ox. And wherever they chose to stand, they are in a hopelessly compromised situation in which they fulfill none of the three goals effectively." (p. 71)
"Any healthy society needs an educational system that helps to produce good citizens, good workers, and good social opportunities."
The problem isn't with the conflict, contradiction, and compromise of the three goals, it's the dominance of social mobility which reconceptualizes education as a purely private good
Education should be a public good and former attempts to privatize have shown to damage both school and society through undermining learning, reinforcing social classification, and promoting a wasteful race to attain devalued credentials