Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us About School Reform - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0801849217 ISBN 13: 9780801849213

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Many Americans view today's problems in education as an unprecedented crisis brought on by contemporary social ills. In Learning from the Past a group of distinguished educational historians and scholars of public policy reminds us that many of our current difficulties – as well as recent reform efforts – have important historical antecedents. What can we learn, they ask, from nineteenth century efforts to promote early childhood education, or debates in the 1920s about universal secondary education, or the curriculum reforms of the 1950s?

Reflecting a variety of intellectual and disciplinary orientations, the contributors to this volume examine major changes in educational development and reform and consider how such changes have been implemented in the past. They address questions of governance, equity and multiculturalism, curriculum standards, school choice, and a variety of other issues. Policy makers and other school reformers, they conclude, would do well to investigate the past in order to appreciate the implications of the present reform initiatives.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Diane Ravitch is a research professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and holds the Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. She served as Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America's Children, and City Schools: Lessons from New York. Maris A. Vinovskis is the University of Michigan Bentley Professor of History, ISR Research Professor, and Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is the author of From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy and The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801849217
• ISBN 13: 9780801849213
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Redattore: Ravitch Diane, Vinovskis Maris A.
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