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Tables of Contents for Reconstructing the Common Good in Education
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
xi
Foreword
xv
Patricia Albjerg Graham
Introduction
1
8
Larry Cuban
Dorothy Shipps
Part I. Ways of Seeing the Common Good in Public Education: The Past Informing the Present
9
98
Public Schools and the Elusive Search for the Common Good
13
19
William J. Reese
Turning Points: Reconstruction and the Growth of National Influence in Education
32
19
Ted Mitchell
``There Is No Escape...from the Ogre of Indoctrination'': George Counts and the Civic Dilemmas of Democratic Educators
51
17
Daniel Perlstein
``No One Here to Put Us Down'': Hispano Education in a Southern Colorado Community, 1920--1963
68
14
Ruben Donato
Echoes of Corporate Influence: Managing Away Urban School Troubles
82
25
Dorothy Shipps
Part II. Ways of Seeing the Common Good in Public Education: Social and Political Implications
107
64
No Exit: Public Education as an Inescapably Public Good
110
20
David F. Labaree
Bureaucracy Left and Right: Thinking About the One Best System
130
18
Harvey Kantor
Robert Lowe
Why Is It So Hard to Get ``Good'' Schools?
148
23
Larry Cuban
Part III. Uncommon Ways of Seeing the Common Good
171
52
Civic Friendship: An Aristotelian Perspective
173
13
Elisabeth Hansot
Devotion and Ambiguity in the Struggles of a Poor Mother and Her Family: New York City, 1918--1919
186
20
Michael B. Katz
Reflections on Education as Transcendence
206
17
John Meyer
Afterword
223
8
Dorothy Shipps
Larry Cuban
Notes
231
14
References
245
30
Index
275