04714cam a2200517 a 4500 74009 20230410123917.0 921231s1993 mau b 001 0 eng 92046732 (OCoLC)ocm27264764 DLC DLC MLX BAKER NLGGC BTCTA LVB YDXCP OCLCG UBC ZWZ 0674722329 (acid-free paper) : $27.95 9780674722323 (acid-free paper) NLGGC 118811703 YDXCP 537420 NZ1 4297705 AU@ 000013139033 ZWZ 016190270 (OCoLC)27264764 n-us--- LA 217.2 L716p 1993 371.010973 GRAL Lieberman, Myron, 1919- Public education : an autopsy / Myron Lieberman. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993. xi, 379 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-366) and index. Why an autopsy? -- The future context of public education -- Producer-consumer conflict -- The information system of public education -- Educational information under a market system -- The real costs of public education -- Educational outcomes as an efficiency issue -- The educational consequences of racial conflict -- Equality of educational opportunity reconsidered -- The impact of higher education on the public schools -- Educational research and development -- The educational agenda and its problems -- The transition solution. In this blistering critique of our failing public schools and our fuzzy thinking about how to fix them, Myron Lieberman explains why public education is in irreversible and terminal decline and tells us what we must do to get American schooling back on track. No other book on educational policy or reform covers such a broad range of issues or draws upon such extensive empirical data across such diverse academic disciplines. This is a refreshingly clear analysis of our educational crisis and a rallying cry for market-system approaches to school reform. Lieberman contends that the major deficiencies of public education are inherent in the act that government provides the service: the government's role as producer of education conflicts with its role as protector of consumer interests, and the conflicts are overwhelmingly resolved in favor of its producer role. He presents a comprehensive analysis of the alternatives, concluding that the existing system must be replaced by a three-sector industry encompassing public, non-profit, and for-profit schools, with for-profit schools playing an important role. His analysis covers the enormous underestimation of the real cost of public education, the overestimation of its benefits, the breakdown of its information system, the destructive role of higher education, the media emphasis on secondary issues such as multiculturalism, the futility of educational research and development, the role of teacher unions in protecting the status quo, and the antimarket bias that pervades every aspect of public education. Lieberman also analyzes the implications of a market system for equality of educational opportunity; in his view, the critics of a market system of education have ignored the evidence that free enterprise has done more than government to equalize the human condition. Despite his strong criticisms of public education, Lieberman is also highly critical of the educational choice movement for its ineptitude in moving toward a market system. Nobody emerges unscathed - his analysis challenges the advocates of choice as well as the defenders of the public schools. Certain to be controversial, this is a book for everyone seriously involved with education - politicians, administrators, teachers, school board members, teacher union officials, education writers and reporters, academics, and parents. Public schools United States. Education Economic aspects United States. Privatization United States. Educational vouchers United States. School improvement programs United States. Escuelas públicas Estados Unidos. Educación Aspectos económicos Estados Unidos. Privatización Estados Unidos. Certificados educativos Estados Unidos. Relaciones maestro-estudiante. Baker & Taylor BKTY 30.50 30.50 0674722329 0002265969 active Baker and Taylor BTCP 92046732 //r93 $27.95 YBP Library Services YANK 537420 lcc bk C0 DRFGD 68077 68077 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 LA 217.2 L716p 1993 00000063325 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk