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The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in Americareviewed by Robert R. Lawrence - 1990 Title: The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America Author(s): Steven Brint, Jerome Karabel Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford ISBN: 0195048164, Pages: 312, Year: 1989 Search for book at Amazon.com Brint and Karabel build an ambiguous argument stating that schools should at once develop skills, foster citizenship, and provide for socioeconomic upward mobility. The opening phrases of Chapter 1, “From the earliest days of the Republic,” express the historical and political approach of the book. Populist phrases from Jefferson, Lincoln, and Reagan are cited. Just as community colleges are often called the “people’s colleges,” so this book is written in defense of just those “people,” the working class and those aspiring to be upwardly mobile.
The invention and phenomenal growth of the community college took place through the efforts of “powerful sponsors,” the leaders of such universities as Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and Berkeley, during the 1890s and the years prior to World War I. It was during this period that the American research university came into being using the German university as a model. The American high school, invented just a... (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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- Robert Lawrence
The Jefferson Community College of Kentucky
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