Learning from the Past - What History Teaches Us about School Reform (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1995
First published:	1995
Editors:	Diane Ravitch (Research Professor) • Maris A. Vinovskis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-4921-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	0-8018-4921-7
Barcode:	9780801849213

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