Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School ReformDiane Ravitch, Maris A. Vinovskis JHU Press, 1995 - 381 páginas 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. |
Índice
Whos in Charge? Federal State and Local Control 25 | 25 |
School Delivery | 57 |
Changing Conceptions of Educational Equity | 97 |
Ethnic Diversity and National Identity | 113 |
Asking | 135 |
The Search for Order and the Rejection | 167 |
Reinventing Schooling | 191 |
The New Politics of Choice | 217 |
School Readiness and Early Childhood Education | 243 |
Dead End or Detour? | 265 |
The High School Curriculum | 295 |
HighLevel Adult Literacy | 329 |
Reefer Madness and A Clockwork Orange | 355 |
Contributors 383 | |
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