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- Title
School Reform in the United States: Frames and Representations.
- Authors
Shannon, Patrick
- Abstract
This essay reviews six competing positions on U.S. school reform: a speech from Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan; Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System; Frederick Hess's The Same Thing Over and Over; Charles Payne's So Much Reform, So Little Change; Anthony Byrk and others' Organizing School for Improvement; and Valerie Kinloch's Harlem On Our Minds. Read separately, each invites readers to join a social consensus in order to become competent citizens eager to redesign American schools to realize a desired future. Read together, they provide a primer on how our sociological imaginations might help us to recognize the value of dissensus in school reform within a pluralistic democracy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL change; PHILOSOPHY of education; DUNCAN, Arne, 1964-; RAVITCH, Diane, 1938-; BYRK, Anthony S.; KINLOCH, Valerie
- Publication
Reading Research Quarterly, 2012, Vol 47, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0034-0553
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1002/RRQ.012