American School Reform
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American School Reform

Progressive, Equity, and Excellence Movements, 1883-1993

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

American School Reform

Progressive, Equity, and Excellence Movements, 1883-1993

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
1994
Print ISBN
9780275951603
eBook ISBN
9780313389726
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter One: The Progressive Movement
  4. Chapter Two: Progressive Education: The Matrix of It All
  5. Chapter Three: John Dewey: America's Educational Philosopher
  6. Chapter Four: The Civil Rights Movement and Equity Reform
  7. Chapter Five: Community Control Revisited
  8. Chapter Six: The Drift to Privatization
  9. Chapter Seven: The School Culture Wars
  10. Chapter Eight: Conclusion
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index