Public goods, private goods: The american struggle over educational goals

This article covered 3 goals that have been the root for educational problems for a while now

Democratic equality

• All citizens need to know as much as possible
• They must be as educated as possible
• In order for this, education must be accessible to everyone
• This will have created a true democracy 
• With this being said, all citizens are able to contribute

Social Efficiency

• Everyone benefits from more skilled workers
• makes education more practical by offering more studies
• private training for public benefits

Social Mobility

• The benefit goes to the individual consumer
• These consumers gain a salary increase
• This provides further stratification and differentiation between programs
• Public Ed: Public benefits from people going to college 

Untitled Slide

• complaints are filling schools because they are breeding social disorder
• goal  setting is a political problem
• unfettered economic freedom leads to highly unequal distribution of health
• social mobility helps with social position
• a high level of shared education is essential to a democratic society

Untitled Slide

• the logic of an educational leader is not moral but economic sense
• all americans have an equal access goal to gain education at any level
• equal treatment for social promotion was a major mechanism of reformers
• purpose of shared education: for students to use their minds
• So these students can be prepared for responsible citizenship