American School Reform
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American School Reform
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Author : Maurice R. Berube
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1994-12-30
American School Reform written by Maurice R. Berube and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-12-30 with Education categories.
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.
American School Reform
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Author : Joseph P. McDonald
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-04-22
American School Reform written by Joseph P. McDonald and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Education categories.
Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation’s largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge—launched in 1994—alongside other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They look deeply at what school reform really is, how it works, how it fails, and what differences it can make nonetheless. McDonald and his colleagues lay out several interrelated ideas in what they call a theory of action space. Frequently education policy gets so ambitious that implementing it becomes a near impossibility. Action space, however, is what takes shape when talented educators, leaders, and reformers guide the social capital of civic leaders and the financial capital of governments, foundations, corporations, and other backers toward true results. Exploring these extraordinary collaborations through their lifespans and their influences on future efforts, the authors provide political hope—that reform efforts can work, and that our schools can be made better.
The Tragedy Of American School Reform
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Author : Ronald W. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-05-09
The Tragedy Of American School Reform written by Ronald W. Evans and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-09 with Education categories.
Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On one side were teachers and curriculum developers; on the other, conservative activists determined to undo the revolutions of the 1960s. The episode brought a return to traditional history, a turn away from questioning, and the re-imposition of authority. Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, The Tragedy of American School Reform offers a provocative perspective on current trends.
Places For Learning Places For Joy
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Author : Theodore R. Sizer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1973
Places For Learning Places For Joy written by Theodore R. Sizer and has been published by Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Education categories.
The author undercuts the bombast of current publicity surrounding school failure and reform, exposing some of the educational delusions Americans tolerate and suggesting more honest approaches to formal education.
The Futures Of School Reform
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Author : Jal Mehta
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
The Futures Of School Reform written by Jal Mehta and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Education categories.
The Futures of School Reform represents the culminating work of a three-year discussion among national education leaders convened by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Based on the recognition that current education reform efforts have reached their limits, the volume maps out a variety of bold visions that push the boundaries of our current thinking. Taken together, these visions identify the leverage points for generating dramatic change and highlight critical trade-offs among different courses of action. The goal of this book is not to present a menu of options. Rather, it is to surface contrasting assumptions, tensions, constraints, and opportunities, so that together we can better understand—and act on—the choices that lie before us.
Becoming Good American Schools
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Author : Jeannie Oakes
language : en
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Release Date : 2002-04-04
Becoming Good American Schools written by Jeannie Oakes and has been published by Jossey-Bass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-04 with Education categories.
"A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue." —Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities "Rich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational process will see himself or herself in this book--as the brave risk taker, the naive visionary, the frightened frontline trooper, and the touched individual who can make a difference." —Judy Cunningham, principal, South Lake Middle School, Irvine, California This book tells the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their structures and practices and become places fostering innovative ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic processes. Based on longitudinal, comparative case-study research, these accounts attest to the power of committing to public virtue and the struggle of educators to transform that commitment into changed school practice. The authors argue that better schools will come only when policy makers, educators, and citizens move beyond technical and bureaucratic reforms to engage in the same educative, socially just, caring, and participatory processes they want for schoolchildren. Those processes constitute betterment--both the means and the ends of school reform. Becoming Good American Schools is for administrators, policy makers, practitioners, and citizens who are prepared to blend inspiration and caution, idealism and skepticism in their own pursuit of good schools.
Challenges Of Conflicting School Reforms
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Author : Mark Berends
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2002-03-29
Challenges Of Conflicting School Reforms written by Mark Berends and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-29 with Education categories.
A decade ago, New American Schools (NAS) launched an ambitious effort forwhole-school reform to address the perceived lagging achievement of Americanstudents and the lackluster school reform attempts that have produced so fewmeaningful changes. As a private nonprofit organization, NAS set out tohelp schools and districts significantly raise the achievement of largenumbers of students by offering whole-school designs and design-basedassistance during the implementation process. NAS is currently in thescale-up phase of its effort, and its designs are being widely diffused toschools across the nation. During the 1997_1998 and 1998_1999 school years,RAND assessed the effects of NAS designs on classroom practice and studentachievement in a sample of schools in a high-poverty district. RAND foundthat high-poverty schools often have fragmented and conflicting environmentswith difficult and changing political currents and entrenched unions.Teachers in high-poverty schools tend to face new accountability systems andfluctuating reform agendas. These teachers generally lack sufficient timefor implementing reform efforts, often becoming demoralized and losing theirenthusiasm for the difficult task of improving student performance underdifficult conditions. RAND concluded that high-stakes tests may motivateschools to increase performance and to seek out new curricula andinstructional strategies associated with comprehensive school reforms.However, those same tests may provide disincentives to adopt richer, morein-depth curricula that can succeed in improving the learning opportunitiesof all students, particularly those in high-poverty settings.
Public School Reform In America
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Author : William J. Reese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Public School Reform In America written by William J. Reese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Education categories.
Every era of deep social change in U.S. history has produced incessant calls for social improvement through the reform of the public schools. This fastback sketches some common themes and recent discontinuities in the history of school reform. It focuses on three aspects of change during key eras of reform: the sources of education change, the many-sided demands of reformers, and the influence of various reformers on social practices. Embedded in these concerns are fundamental issues of the changing definitions of schooling in society, disputes over who should control and have access to education, and how schools should be organized and what they should teach. The fastback comments on 19th and 20th century efforts at school reform in the United States and considers its politics and process. (Includes a 10-item annotated bibliography and 36 notes.) (BT)
The Hope For American School Reform
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Author : Ronald W. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-12-14
The Hope For American School Reform written by Ronald W. Evans and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Education categories.
The Hope of American School Reform tells the story of the origins of the reform in science and math education. The book is drawn, in part, on new research from previously untapped archival sources. The aim of this work is to contribute to our understanding of a major effort to reform school curricula.
Facing The Challenges Of Whole School Reform
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Author : Mark Berends
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2002-04-03
Facing The Challenges Of Whole School Reform written by Mark Berends and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-03 with Education categories.
About a decade ago, New American Schools (NAS) set out to address theperceived lagging performance of American students and the lacklusterresults of school reform efforts. As a private nonprofit organization,NAS's mission was-and is-to help schools and districts raise studentachievement levels by using whole-school designs and design team assistanceduring implementation. Since its inception, NAS has engaged in adevelopment phase (1992-1993), a demonstration phase (1993-1995), and ascale-up phase (1995-present). Over the last ten years, RAND has been monitoring the progress of the NASinitiative. This book is a retrospective on NAS and draws together thefindings from RAND research. The book underscores the significantcontributions made by NAS to comprehensive school reform but also highlightsthe challenges of trying to reform schools through whole-school designs.Divided into sections on each research phase, the book concludes with anafterword by NAS updating its own strategy for the future. This book willinterest those who want to better understand comprehensive school reform andits effects on teaching and learning within high-stakes accountabilityenvironments.