EBOOK American Dream and the Public Schools

This book examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years,        including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education,        multicultural education, and ability grouping. The authors show that these devisive        issues stem from an apparent conflict, rooted in the American dream, between        policies designed to promote each student's ability to pursue success and those        designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors        show how policies to promote individual success too often benefit only those already        privileged by race or class, and too often conflict, unnecessarily, with policies        that are intended to benefit everyone.