Thirteenth Annual "Brown" Lecture in Education Research: Public Education and the Social Contract--Restoring the Promise in an Age of Diversity and Division

Autor/in	Tienda, Marta
Titel	Thirteenth Annual "Brown" Lecture in Education Research: Public Education and the Social Contract--Restoring the Promise in an Age of Diversity and Division
Quelle	In: Educational Researcher, 46 (2017) 6, S.271-283 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-189X
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Public Education; Academic Achievement; Civil Rights; Federal Regulation; Equal Education; Government Role; Social Change; Higher Education; Public Agencies; Educational Change; Educational Opportunities; Educational History; Federal Government; Social Action; Political Issues; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Expenditure per Student; Desegregation Litigation; School Desegregation; Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Finance; Court Litigation; Poverty; Student Diversity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Schulleistung; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Bundeskompetenz; Sozialer Wandel; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Bildungsreform; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bundesregierung; Soziales Handeln; Politischer Faktor; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Integrative Schule; Bildungsfonds; Rechtsstreit; Armut
Abstract	Building on the premise that closing achievement gaps is an economic imperative both to regain international educational supremacy and to maintain global economic competitiveness, I ask whether it is possible to rewrite the social contract so that education is a fundamental right--a statutory guarantee--that is both uniform across states and federally enforceable. I argue that the federal government was complicit in aggravating educational inequality by not guaranteeing free, public education as a basic right during propitious political moments; by enabling the creation of a segregated public higher education system; by relegating the Department of Education and its predecessors to a secondary status in the federal administration, thereby compromising its enforcement capability; and by proliferating incremental reforms while ignoring the unequal institutional arrangements that undermine equal opportunity to learn. History shows that a strong federal role can potentially strengthen the educational social contract. [This manuscript was prepared for the 2016 "Brown" Lecture in Education Research, delivered on October 20, 2016, in Washington, D.C.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01