American School Reform: Progressive, Equity, and Excellence Movements, 1883-1993 - Couverture rigide

Berube, Maurice R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275950360 ISBN 13 : 9780275950361

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Berube analyzes the three great educational reform movements in the United States. He shows how they have been shaped by outside societal forces: Progressive Education was an offshoot of the Progressive Movement; Equity Reform in the 1960s was influenced by the Civil Rights Movement; Excellence Reform in the last decade was a response to foreign economic competition. Within each matrix, common characteristics of each movement emerge. Progressive Education with its emphasis on critical thinking and child-centered schools set the stage for what was to follow. Equity Reform sought to complete the unfinished agenda of Progressive Education in educating the poor. Excellence Reform repudiated both in the name of higher standards and content-specific curriculums. The emergence of sophisticated educational research since the 1960s has influenced educational policy to be more research-based. Berube provides a necessary overview of the great movements in school reform over the last century.

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À propos de l'auteur

MAURICE R. BERUBE is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Old Dominion University. He is the author of American Presidents and Education (1991), Teacher Politics: The Influence of Unions (1988), and Education and Poverty: Effective Schooling in the United States and Cuba (1984), and many more, all published by Greenwood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275950360
• ISBN 13: 9780275950361
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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