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ERIC Number: EJ612897
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Resisting Educational Standards.
Labaree, David F.
Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n1 p28-33 Sep 2000
Americans' commitment to local control, expanded educational opportunities, and form over substance have made standards a hard sell. Education is becoming a private good to serve consumers' individual interests, not a public good serving broader public interests. A consumerist approach to standards stresses schools' sorting function. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Democratic Values, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Human Capital, Resistance to Change, School District Autonomy, Social Mobility, Social Stratification
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Consumerism