Learning from the past : what history teaches us about school reform / edited by Diane Ravitch and Maris A. Vinovskis.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.Description: xiv, 381 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 0801849217 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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- LA 217.2 L438 1995
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Includes bibliographical references.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Changes in Education Over TimeChapter 1. Assimilation, Adjustment, and Access: An Antiquarian View of American EducationChapter 2. Who's in Charge? Federal, State, and Local ControlChapter 3. Attitudes, Choices, and Behavior: School DeliveryPart II: Equity and MulticulturalismChapter 4. Changing Conceptions of Educational EquityChapter 5. Ethnic Diversity and National IdentityChapter 6. American History Reconsidered: Asking New Questions About the PastPart III: Recent Strategies For Reforming the SchoolsChapter 7. The Search for Order and the Rejection of Conformity: Standards in American EDucationChapter 8. Reinventing SchoolingChapter 9. The New Politics of ChoicePart IV: The Six National GoalsChapter 10. School Readiness and Early Childhood EducationChapter 11. School Leaving: Dead End or Detour?Chapter 12. Rhetoric and Reality: The High School CurriculumChapter 13. Literate America: High-Level Adult Literacy as a National GoalChapter 14. Reefer Madness and A Clockwork OrangeContributors
This text examines major changes in US educational development and reform, considering how such changes have been implemented in the past and warning against exaggerating their benefits. Issues covered include governance, equity and multiculturalism, curriculum standards and school choice.
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