10 questions: Mike Rose, expert on K-12 schools

11-20-2009

UCLA Today

Mike Rose, an award-winning author and celebrated professor at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, asks Americans to reflect on the purposes of public education in his new book, "Why School: Reclaiming Education for All of Us." Why did you write this book now? What is it about our present moment that calls for a rethinking of public education? For at least 20 years the only justification we hear for schooling from policy makers is an economic one – we have to prepare students for the new economy, build "21st century skills,” prepare individuals for the workforce. I come from a working-class family – and education made possible the life I have now. I’m absolutely not against preparing students for an economically viable life. I don’t have a beef with a vocational, job-oriented purpose as one of the reasons we send kids to school, but that has crowded everything else out. (more...)

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