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Possible Lives Guiding questions:
 * 1) What are the purposes of schools? Who decides these purposes?
 * 2) How do the public and the individual purposes of schooling conflict and overlap and how are these varied purposes reflected in school practices?
 * 3) Who controls schooling and the work of teachers? How have schools and their structure and governance, control, and purposes changed over time in the United States?
 * 4) How do schools both perpetuate and struggle against inequities? How have race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic class, and identity shaped schooling opportunities and experiences in the United States?