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Many Americans view today's problems in education as an unprecedented crisis brought on by the rise of contemporary social problems. In Learning from the Past a group of distinguished educational historians and scholars of public policy reminds us that many 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, consider how such changes have been implemented in the past, and warn against , exaggerating their benefits. 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Organization & management of education

• Full title: Learning from the Past
• Subtitle: What History Teaches Us about School Reform
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780801849213
• ISBN: 0801849217
• ID: 04708563
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 595 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 1995

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