Knee-Jerk Formalism: Reforming American Education.

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  • Author(s): Rossides, Daniel W.
  • Source:
    Journal of Higher Education. Nov/Dec2004, Vol. 75 Issue 6, p667-703. 37p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      EDUCATION of poor people; UNITED States education system; EDUCATIONAL finance; CITIZENSHIP
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      Argues that significant improvements in education can be made only if there are drastic improvements in the life circumstances of America's lower classes. Improvement of the life circumstances of the lower classes which also means providing their schools with the resources they need; The need to recognize that schools have little causal power in their own right; Evidence that formal education at both elite an nonelite levels is not related to positive outcomes in either citizenship or work; View that if we want good citizens and good workers/professionals, we need to figure out how to produce them directly.