| Volume 59 | Number 7 Customizing Our Schools Welcome to EL
Extra. We have designed questions to help you and your
colleagues foster meaningful discussions around this issue of
Educational Leadership. These questions will not cover all
aspects of this issue, but we hope that they will help you
generate a conversation around key ideas. Feel free to adapt the
questions to be more relevant to your school or school district.
Although you can consider many of the questions on your own, we
encourage you to use them in pairs, small groups, or even large
study groups. The Aims of Public Education Larry Cuban
(“Customization and the Common Good”) discusses three major aims
of schooling: providing individual benefits to students (such as
high school diplomas), preparing students to become good
citizens, and preparing students for careers. What priority do
you personally place on these three aims? Get together with your
colleagues to compare views. Which of these aims does your
school, school district, and state emphas