Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures. He suggests that even today the question still asked is: "How can we operate our schools?" Society has not yet learned to ask: "How can we provide an excellent education for our children?"
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Education and the Cult of Efficiency
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2010Print ISBN
9780226091501
9780226091488
eBook ISBN
9780226216904
Topic
EducationSubtopic
Education GeneralTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedicaton
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. The Prelude 1900–1910
- 2. Reform-Conscious America Discovers the Efficiency Expert
- 3. Criticism and Response in the Early Years of the Efficiency Era
- 4. American Educators Apply the Great Panacea
- 5. The Educational Efficiency Experts in Action
- 6. The “Factory System” in Education — the Platoon School
- 7. Instruction Follows Accounting
- 8. A New Profession Takes Form
- 9. Efficiency’s Progeny
- 10. An American Tragedy in Education
- Notes
- Index
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