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Chasing success and confronting failure in American public schools
"The history of American education is rife with calls for school reform and efforts to turn so-called "failing" schools into "successful" ones. Cuban argues that, in the history of American education, standards of success and failure-as well as the reform efforts issuing from them-have been neither stable nor consistent"--
How have "success" and "failure" been defined and applied to schools past and present? -- From where do these ideas of "success" and "failure" come? -- How were these ideas and values transmitted to Americans then and now? -- Who decides (and how) whether schools "succeed" and "fail"? -- What does institutional and individual "success" and "failure" look like in two contemporary schools? -- MetWest High School in Oakland, California -- So what?
Includes bibliographical references and index.