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Catholic Schools: Mission, Markets and Moralityreviewed by Richard Jacobs - 2003 Title: Catholic Schools: Mission, Markets and Morality Author(s): Gerald Grace Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415243246, Pages: 240, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Judged solely by its title, a book describing the challenges
confronting inner-city Catholic headteachers [principals] in
England would contain little between its front and back covers to
interest public school administrators practicing their craft across
the Atlantic Ocean in the United States. Although the
academic mission may be the same, the context within which that
mission is delivered to students differs as does its market.
Arguably, the matter of religious education is one that has little
to do with public schooling in the United States.
But Grace’s volume, Catholic Schools: Mission, Markets
and Morality (2002, Falmer Press), challenges those notions and
for reasons that may prove rather surprising for administrators of
the nation’s public schools.
With the passage of England’s 1988 Education Reform Act
and the 1992 Education (Schools) Act, the conservative ruling party
achieved its long-standing goal of introducing an individualistic
and competitive ethic into county [public] education. Market
values and market culture as well as stronger forms of
accountability would now factor into the school... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Richard Jacobs
Villanova University E-mail Author RICHARD M. JACOBS is an Associate Professor of Educational Administration at Villanova University. A native of Chicago, Jacobs served for nearly two decades in Catholic middle and secondary schools as a teacher and administrator prior to undertaking his work in Catholic higher education. Since coming to Villanova in 1991, where he earned the rank of Associate Professor in 1996 and tenure in 1998, Jacobs has also studied higher educational administration during the 1996 and 1997 academic years as Assistant to the President of Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.
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