Can America's faith in public education be restored? As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.
Can America's faith in public education be restored? As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed Ameri...
The One Best System a major new interpretation of what actually happened in the development of one of America's most influential institutions. At the same time it is a narrative in which the participants themselves speak out: farm children and factory workers, frontier teachers and city superintendents, black parents and elite reformers. And it encompasses both the achievements and the failures of the system: the successful assimilation of immigrants, racism and class bias; the opportunities offered to some, the injustices perpetuated for others.
Mr. Tyack has placed his...
The One Best System a major new interpretation of what actually happened in the development of one of America's most influential institution...
For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices.
In this book, David Tyack and Larry Cuban explore some basic questions about the nature of educational reform. Why have Americans come to believe that schooling has regressed? Have...
For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk...
In the first social history of what happened to public schools in those "years of the locust," the authors explore the daily experience of schoolchildren in many kinds of communities--the public school students of working-class northeastern towns, the rural black children of the South, the prosperous adolescents of midwestern suburbs. How did educators respond to the fiscal crisis, and why did Americans retain their faith in public schooling during the cataclysm? The authors examine how New Dealers regarded public education and the reaction of public school people to the distinctive New...
In the first social history of what happened to public schools in those "years of the locust," the authors explore the daily experience of schoolch...
At the beginning of the 20th century, American reformers saw vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the nation's economic and social ills. These essays address the question of whether the ensuing educational reforms had any effect on the problems they were supposed to solve.
At the beginning of the 20th century, American reformers saw vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the nation's economic and social ...
