Learning From the Past - What History Teaches Us About School Reform

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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).

Zusammenfassung

This text examines major changes in US educational development and reform, considering how such changes have been implemented in the past and warning against exaggerating their benefits. Issues covered include governance, equity and multiculturalism, curriculum standards and school choice.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Diane Ravitch, Diane (Research Professor Ravitch, Diane Vinovskis Ravitch
• Mitarbeit: Diane Ravitch (Herausgeber), Diane (Research Professor Ravitch (Herausgeber), Ravitch Diane (Herausgeber), Maris A Vinovskis (Herausgeber), Maris A. Vinovskis (Herausgeber), Vinovskis Maris A. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.03.1995
• EAN: 9780801849213
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4921-3
• Seiten: 400
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Bildungswesen; USA, EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, United States of America, USA