Learning from the Past

What History Teaches Us about School Reform

By: Diane Ravitch (Editor), Maris A. Vinovskis (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 February 1995

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

--Robert A. McCaughey, Barnard College

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"The quality of the contributors alone is enough to make this an excellent book. It is a valuable compendium--and bibliography--of recent thinking on the historical context of current discussions of educational reform. It should be read by educational policymakers and by anyone who wants to be sufficiently well-informed about education to participate in the reform process."--Robert A. McCaughey, Barnard College

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Assimilation, Adjustment, and Access: An Antiquarian View of American Education	p. 3
Who's in Charge? Federal, State, and Local Control	p. 25
Attitudes, Choices, and Behavior: School Delivery of Health and Social Services	p. 57
Changing Conceptions of Educational Equity	p. 97
Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in Public School Texts	p. 113
American History Reconsidered: Asking New Questions about the Past	p. 135
The Search for Order and the Rejection of Conformity: Standards in American Education	p. 167
Reinventing Schooling	p. 191
The New Politics of Choice	p. 217
School Readiness and Early Childhood Education	p. 243
School Leaving: Dead End or Detour?	p. 265
Rhetoric and Reality: The High School Curriculum	p. 295
Literate America: High-Level Adult Literacy as a National Goal	p. 329
Reefer Madness and A Clockwork Orange	p. 355
Contributors	p. 383
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