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The Impossible Dream: Education and the Search for Panaceas

reviewed by Sonia E. Murrow - 2004

Title: The Impossible Dream: Education and the Search for Panaceas
Author(s): Thomas C. Hunt
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York
ISBN: 0820437476, Pages: 301, Year: 2003
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Since its inception, American schooling has been charged with the immense responsibility of improving the nation�s social, political, and economic life. Referred to by Horace Mann as �the great equalizer� and by Lyndon B. Johnson as �the thing that can answer to all our national problems,� schooling in America is and has been perceived as the great cure-all. � Historians and other scholars have attempted to determine why Americans place such enormous faith in schooling. Labeling schooling in America as a �great crusade,� Diane Ravitch proclaimed, �no other idea has seemed more typically American than the belief that education could cure society�s ills� (Ravitch, 1983: xii).� Hannah Arendt argued that education occupies such an important position in American life because of its role in the continual assimilation of immigrants (Arendt, 1958).� Henry Perkinson maintained that American schooling, from its early beginnings, has been equated with the task of socialization, and thus, serves as a crucial arbitrator of the status quo (Perkinson, 1991). All of these perspectives posit education as essential... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 106 Number 2, 2004, p. 311-314
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11197, Date Accessed: 5/31/2020 7:10:04 AM

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Sonia Murrow Long Island University - Brooklyn E-mail Author SONIA E. MORROW is an assistant professor of Urban Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Long Island University � Brooklyn. Her areas of interest include social foundations, curriculum and pedagogy, social studies education, and urban school reform. Her paper, �Learning from Recurring Debates in Education: Teacher Education Students Explore Historical Case Studies� is forthcoming in Educational Studies. She is currently doing research, with Mary Rose McCarthy, on the presentation of educational history in foundations of education texts over time as a way to understand history�s potential to foster a critical perspective among future teachers.

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