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The Struggle for Public Education - Ten Themes in American Educational History (Hardcover)
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The Struggle for Public Education - Ten Themes in American Educational History (Hardcover)
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The great pendulum of educational reform recently has begun its
inexorable swing toward a new understanding of education. The
thirty-year dominance of the authoritarian approach, complete with
standardized assessments, distended bureaucracies and school
consolidation based on the business model, appears to be over.
Capped by the recent departure of the No Child Left behind Act and
replaced with a new congressional authorization - the Every Child
Achieves Act - we are witnessing a distinct move toward a more
democratic model of education. This book places the tension between
these two broadly defined archetypes in the context of the central
themes of American education. These include the structure and
organization of American schools, the struggle for diversity,
curriculum and instruction, classroom discipline, moral education,
testing and assessment, and the rights and responsibilities of
teachers and students. By organizing these themes into a more
understandable and relevant thematic context, readers will be able
to appreciate the changes in the field of education over the years
as well as the cacophonous bickering over education policy - today
and yesterday.
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