Re: The crisis in public education

["Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

haven't read it.  read a precursor paper by him a while
back that provided lots of evidence that what goes on
in schools depends on what is going on outside.  May
be obvious, but he gathers evidence that is useful in
debate and fortifies what I think is a crucial point:
too much emphasis on using schools to fix social
problems, or expecting too much from schools or
from school reform.  (Not that school reform is
not important or feasible too.)

His son was an Research Ass't at EPI, went to grad
school at Berkeley, and is now
a hot-shot Ass't Prof at Princeton.  Still progressive;
hasn't been warped by graduate econ instruction.

mbs


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From: PEN-L list [mailto:PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Lear
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 3:46 PM
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Subject: Re: The crisis in public education

On Friday, May 28, 2004 at 15:32:11 (-0400) Max B. Sawicky writes:
>Class and Schools, by Richard Rothstein, a joint publication of EPI and
>Teachers College of Columbia Univ.

Hmm, sounds interesting.  Do they extend on the work by Edgar Litt by
chance?  Thomas Ferguson pointed me to Litt many years ago and I found
Litt's work very good indeed.


Bill