Reconstructing the Common Good in Education: Coping with Intractable American Dilemmas.

TLDR: Cuban and Shipps as mentioned in this paper discuss the history of public education as a public good in public education and the challenges faced by public education in the past, present and future.

Abstract: Foreword Patricia Albjerg Graham Introduction Larry Cuban and Dorothy Shipps Part I Ways of Seeing the Common Good in Public Education: The Past Informing the Present: 1 Public schools and the elusive search for the common good William J Reese 2 Turning points: reconstruction and the growth of national influence in education Ted Mitchell 3 'The is no escape from the ogre of indoctrination': George Counts and the civic dilemmas of democratic educators Daniel Perlstein 4 'No one here to put us down': hispano education in a Southern Colorado community, 1920-1963 Ruben Donato 5 Echoes of corporate influence: managing away urban school troubles Dorothy Shipps Part II Ways of Seeing the Common Good in Public Education: Social and Political Implications: 6 No exit: public education as an inescapably public good David F Labaree 7 Bureaucracy left and right: thinking about the one best system Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe 8 Why is it so hard to get 'good' schools? Larry Cuban Part III Uncommon Ways of Seeing the Common Good: 9 Civic friendship: an aristotelian perspective Elisabeth Hansot 10 Devotion and ambiguity in the struggles of a poor mother and her family: New York City, 1918-1919 Michael B Katz 11 Reflections on education as transcendence John Mayer Afterword Dorothy Shipps and Larry Cuban Notes References Index