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Understanding Equal Educational Opportunityreviewed by Nicholas C. Burbules - 1999 Title: Understanding Equal Educational Opportunity Author(s): Kenneth R. Howe Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 080773599X, Pages: , Year: 1997 Search for book at Amazon.com One must admire the courage of a project like
Kenneth Howe's in Understanding Equal Educational
Opportunity. At a time when the United States has seen a series
of compromises and erosions in the redistributive policies of the
liberal welfare state, and a widespread abandonment of the social
ideal of economic, political, and educational equality, Professor
Howe has given us a well-argued reconception of the ideal of equal
educational opportunity and has given this conception its strongest
defense as requiring substantive equalization of certain
educational outcomes. This emphasis flies in the face of a society
that has become complacent about the profound inequalities of
educational resources and facilities that exist between poor and
wealthy, inner city and suburban, black and white, and rural and
metropolitan school systems. Professor Howe's refusal to join in
the chorus of "realistic" (read fatalistic) reformers, who have
implicitly accepted that many school children will either drop out
or leave school with barely adequate skills, must be admired.
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- Nicholas Burbules
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign E-mail Author NICHOLAS C. BURBULES is Professor of Educational Policy Studies in the College of Education at the University of Illinois. He is the editor of Educational Theory. His recent articles have appeared in Access, Philosophy of Education, and the Electronic Journal of Sociology.
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