Category: Educational goals

Guhin: How Covid Can Change What Schools Are For

by David Labaree, posted in Educational goals, Inequality, Schooling, Social mobility

This post is a short essay by Jeffrey Guhin published on August 27, 2020 in Hedgehog Review.  In it he puts forth an argument about the purpose of schooling that resonates with some of my own work, including recent posts here such as this, this, and this.  Here's a link to the original. How COVID Can … Continue reading Guhin: How Covid Can Change What Schools Are For

Are Students Consumers?

by David Labaree, posted in Educational goals, History of education

This post is a piece I published in Education Week way back in 1997.  It's a much shorter and more accessible version of the most cited paper I ever published, "Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals."  Drawing on the latter, it lays out a case of three competing educational goals that … Continue reading Are Students Consumers?