1. Goals of Public Schooling

3. This may help some individuals while hurting others (relatively speaking)

4. But it may be better for society overall

5. less crime, better economic growth, etc., helps everyoneQuestion: What are some examples of where the personal and the public goals may conflict?

6. Spring's Three Realms of goals Political Social Economic Discuss with groups: What are the political, social and economic goals schools are charged with meeting? Which do you feel are most important?

9. Drug use

12. Often means finding ways to quantify learning outcomes and arguing that those outcomes cause economic growth

13. Easiest way to quantify outcomes is through standardized testsThe High Cost of Low Educational Performance (see executive summary)

15. If jobs and the skills they demand do not keep up with the level of schooling obtained, the worth of a degree will go down.

16. Focusing on schools to achieve economic growth has drawbacks as well

17. Economic stagnation may be due to structural problems with our economy

19. Wealthy/poor, white/non-white, Christian/non-Christian, etc., should all get the same opportunity.

20. Use merit as judge of success

21. Educational inflation makes it even harder for disadvantaged groups to keep up.

22. You may be the first in your family to get a college degree but its value is no longer worth as much

23. http://www.joannejacobs.com/2010/02/community-college-can-pay-off/

26. Does creating equity in education help grow the economy? Could pushing for economic growth be a better way of creating educational equity?

27. What about social goals. Should we focus on social goals directly or should we assume that creating economic opprtunity will indirectly lead to better social outcomes?

28. People with good jobs will be less tempted to commit certain crimes for example.