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Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making - Softcover

Brighouse, Harry; Ladd, Helen F.; Loeb, Susanna; Swift, Adam

 
9780226514178: Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022651417X ISBN 13: 9780226514178
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve?

In Educational Goods, two philosophers and two social scientists address this very question. They begin by broadening the language for talking about educational policy: “educational goods” are the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that children develop for their own benefit and that of others; “childhood goods” are the valuable experiences and freedoms that make childhood a distinct phase of life. Balancing those, and understanding that not all of them can be measured through traditional methods, is a key first step. From there, they show how to think clearly about how those goods are distributed and propose a method for combining values and evidence to reach decisions. They conclude by showing the method in action, offering detailed accounts of how it might be applied in school finance, accountability, and choice. The result is a reimagining of our decision making about schools, one that will sharpen our thinking on familiar debates and push us toward better outcomes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harry Brighouse is professor of philosophy, affiliate professor of educational policy studies, and Dickson Bascom Professor of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Helen F. Ladd is professor emerita at Duke University. Susanna Loeb is the Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford University. Adam Swift is professor of political theory at the University of Warwick.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022651417X
ISBN 13 
9780226514178
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Anzahl der Seiten
200
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