Larabee

= = toc =Democratic Equality=
 * Whig leaders' goal
 * Horace Mann "make Republicans"
 * p. 19 "It may be an easy thing to make a Republic, but it is a very laborious thing to make Republicans; and woe to the Republic that rests upon no better foundations than ignorance, selfishness, and passion."
 * SS Curriculum envinces goal (the arts too)
 * equal treatment
 * promoted by common school (no leveling)
 * removed religion
 * mainstream special ed
 * equal access: provide schools for all, higher ed too

=Social Efficiency=
 * vocationalism
 * practical education, "needs of employers"
 * lofty (president) to practical (fill jobs)
 * logical economic success; education as investment in society's needs
 * stratified school structure
 * words toward greater inequality
 * tracking/leveling
 * learning at all levels

=Social Mobility=
 * credentials to get ahead
 * educational consumers, individual status stressed
 * education as a private good
 * benefits are selective and differential
 * promotes stratification
 * graded hierarchy
 * qualitative differences of institutions
 * opportunities in each institution
 * move up v. maintain status (differing perspectives of those of this perspective)
 * intense competition
 * affordability
 * extrinsic value (from learning and acquiring) in a job
 * meritocratic form of education