Many Americans view today's problems in education as an unprecedented crisis brought on by the rise of contemporary social problems. In Learning from the Past a group of distinguished educational historians and scholars of public policy reminds us that many 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, consider how such changes have been implemented in the past, and warn against , exaggerating their benefits. 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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The quality of the contributors alone is enough to make this an excellent book. It is a valuable compendium—and bibliography—of recent thinking on the historical context of current discussions of educational reform. It should be read by educational policymakers and by anyone who wants to be sufficiently well-informed about education to participate in the reform process.
(Robert A. McCaughey, Barnard College )The quality of the contributors alone is enough to make this an excellent book. It is a valuable compendium—and bibliography—of recent thinking on the historical context of current discussions of educational reform.
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"The quality of the contributors alone is enough to make this an excellent book. It is a valuable compendium -- and bibliography -- of recent thinking on the historical context of current discussions of educational reform. It should be read by educational policymakers and by anyone who wants to be sufficiently well-informed about education to participate in the reform process." -- Robert A. McCaughey, Barnard College
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- America Revised by Frances Fitzgerald on 5 pages
- Democracy And Education by John Dewey on 4 pages
- The American Dream by Lew Smith on page 123, page 124, and page 133
- Final report on page 91, page 214, and page 327
- The Shaping of the American High School, Volume 2: 1920-1941 (Exploration series in education) (v. 2) by Edward A. Krug on page 188, page 291, and page 323
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- The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century by Judith Sealander on 6 pages
- Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America by Lisbeth Schorr in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Politics, Language, and Culture: A Critical Look at Urban School Reform by Joseph W. Check on page 22, and page 59
- Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform by Diane Ravitch in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past by Anthony Molho on page 143
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