This post is a 2012 piece I published Journal of Curriculum Studies. Here’s a link to a PDF of the original. This piece is now a chapter in my new book, The Ironies of Schooling. Here's an overview of the story I’m telling: The USA is suffering from a school syndrome, which arises from Americans’ insistence … Continue reading School Syndrome
This is an op-ed I published in the Detroit News way back in 1998. It captures a key part of the argument about educational consumerism that I developed in my second book, How to Succeed in Schools Without Really Learning. EDUCATIONAL CONSUMERISM: BAD FOR SCHOOLS BY DAVID F. LABAREE We hear a lot these days about how we … Continue reading Educational Consumerism
This post is a 2012 piece I published Journal of Curriculum Studies, which draws on my book Someone Has to Fail. Here’s a link to a PDF of the original. An overview of the story I’m telling: The USA is suffering from a school syndrome, which arises from Americans’ insistence on having things both ways through the magical medium … Continue reading School Syndrome: Understanding the USA’s Magical Belief that Schooling Can Somehow Improve Society, Promote Access, and Preserve Advantage
This is an op-ed I published in the Detroit News way back in 1998. It captures a key part of the argument about educational consumerism that I developed in my second book, How to Succeed in Schools Without Really Learning. Educational Consumerism: Bad for Schools by David F. Labaree We hear a lot these days … Continue reading Educational Consumerism: Bad for Schools
This post is a piece I just wrote. I tried unsuccessfully to publish in five different venues and gave up, so I'm posting it here. I focus on an issue that I've been thinking about for quite a while: How to understand the core business model that governs American universities. The answer is in the … Continue reading Universities Give Away Knowledge and Sell Degrees
on Are Students Consumers? This post is a piece I published in Education Week way back in 1997. It’s a much shorter and more accessible version of the most cited paper I ever published, “Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals.” Drawing on the latter, it lays out a case for three competing educational … Continue reading Are Students Consumers?
This post is an op-ed by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire recently published in the Washington Post. Here's a link to the original. They're responding to the efforts by parents and by Republican legislators to give parents veto power over what they're children are taught in public schools. Schneider and Berkshire argue that American law … Continue reading Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire — Parents Don’t Have the Right to Shape their Kids’ School Curriculum
This post is the transcript of a conversation I recently had with Ryan Maloney, who is a strength and conditioning coach at Fredonia University. He has a very interesting blog, Cerebral Conversations, in which he discusses issues in higher education with a wide variety of people in the field. This discussion was posted on his … Continue reading A Conversation about US Higher Education
This post is a paper I presented in Berne at the 2012 meeting of the Swiss Society for Research on Education in Berne, which was then published in a book -- Bildungsungleichheit und Gerechtigkeit: Wissenschaftliche und Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen (by far the coolest title in my entire CV). It later appeared as a chapter in my … Continue reading Balancing Access and Advantage — The Tension at the Heart of US Education
This post is a 2012 piece I published Journal of Curriculum Studies, which draws on my book Someone Has to Fail. Here's a link to a PDF of the original. An overview of the story I'm telling: The USA is suffering from a school syndrome, which arises from Americans’ insistence on having things both ways … Continue reading School Syndrome: Understanding the USA’s Magical Belief that Schooling Can Somehow Improve Society, Promote Access, and Preserve Advantage
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 