Day: September 7, 2023

From Citizens to Consumers: Evolution of Reform Rhetoric and Consumer Practice in the U.S.

by David Labaree, posted in Education policy, Educational goals, History of education, School reform

This post is the text of a lecture I delivered in 2019 in Japan at Kyoto University and Keio University.  It draws on the second chapter of my book, Someone Has to Fail (which has been translated into Japanese), and at the end I try to bring the analysis up to the present. The advantage … Continue reading From Citizens to Consumers: Evolution of Reform Rhetoric and Consumer Practice in the U.S.