Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform

ISBN-13: 9780801849213 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 400 str.

Diane Ravitch; Maris A. Vinovskis

Opis

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?