Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform

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Diane 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.

 

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Whos in Charge? Federal State and Local Control 25
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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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Diane Ravitch is Research Professor in the School of Education at New York University and holds the Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution. She was an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education, and she serves on the National Assessment Governing Board. Her publications include Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform and City Schools: Lessons from New York (both available from Johns Hopkins), The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980, and Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms (forthcoming).

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