Learning from the Past

What History Teaches Us about School Reform
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4921-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ravitch, Diane

Vinovskis, Maris A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Changes in Education Over Time
Chapter 1. Assimilation, Adjustment, and Access: An Antiquarian View of American Education
Chapter 2. Who's in Charge? Federal, State, and Local Control
Chapter 3. Attitudes, Choices, and Behavior: School Delivery
Part II: Equity and Multiculturalism
Chapter 4. Changing Conceptions of Educational Equity
Chapter 5. Ethnic Diversity and National Identity
Chapter 6. American History Reconsidered: Asking New Questions About the Past
Part III: Recent Strategies For Reforming the Schools
Chapter 7. The Search for Order and the Rejection of Conformity: Standards in American EDucation
Chapter 8. Reinventing Schooling
Chapter 9. The New Politics of Choice
Part IV: The Six National Goals
Chapter 10. School Readiness and Early Childhood Education
Chapter 11. School Leaving: Dead End or Detour?
Chapter 12. Rhetoric and Reality: The High School Curriculum
Chapter 13. Literate America: High-Level Adult Literacy as a National Goal
Chapter 14. Reefer Madness and A Clockwork Orange
Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Ravitch, Diane
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).

Diane Ravitch is a research professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and holds the Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. She served as Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America's Children, and City Schools: Lessons from New York. Maris A. Vinovskis is the University of Michigan Bentley Professor of History, ISR Research Professor, and Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is the author of From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy and The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.