Restructuring American Education: Innovations and Alternatives

by Ray Rist (Editor)

Overview

Structured schools, free schools, graded schools, ungraded schools, no schools at all--the conflicts over public education in America rage on, for contemporary schools have not lived up to our expectations. The essence of the criticism reflected in the essays in this volume is that America's dual educational goals--free inquiry and social mobility-are not being met. Instead of producing enlightened citizens capable of high social and economic mobility, our schools have become warehouses of children stored as commodities, docile and immobile.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878555338
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1972
Series:	Studies in Social Policy , #3
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ray C. Rist was a senior evaluation officer in the World Bank for many years. He has served as university professor at Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, and George Washington University. In addition, he is the editor for Transaction’s Comparative Policy Evaluation series.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I INNOVATIONS WITHIN THE PRESENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Children and Their Caretakers; Participation, Decentralization, Community Control and Quality Education; Educational Vouchers: A Proposal for Diversity and Choice; Black English for Black Schools: A Call for Educational Congruity; The Right to Learn vs. the Right to Read; The Search for an Educational Revolution; Part II ALTERNATIVES TO THE PRESENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Freedom and Learning: The Need for Choice; Race and Education: A Search for Legitimacy; Private Schools for Black Children; Another Look at Student Rights and the Function of Schooling; Parents and Students of The Elizabeth Cleaners Street School; The Storefront School, Recurrent Education, The Alternative to Schooling.