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Author: William J. Reese
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0807742279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how grass-roots movements operated during the early twentieth century to shape urban education in the United States.
Author: William J. Reese
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780807742280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how grass-roots movements operated during the early twentieth century to shape urban education in the United States.
Author: Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1317259742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCorporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education. Yet, as Kenneth Saltman powerfully argues in this new book, corporate school reforms have decisively failed to deliver on what their proponents have promised for two decades: higher test scores and lower costs. As Saltman illustrates, the failures of corporate school reform are far greater and more destructive than they seem. Left unchecked, corporate school reform fails to challenge and in fact worsens the most pressing problems facing public schooling, including radical funding inequalities, racial segregation, and anti-intellectualism. But it is not too late for change. Against both corporate school reformers and its liberal critics, this book argues for the expansion of democratic pedagogies and a new common school movement that will lead to broader social renewal.
Author: Linda McNeil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1135963282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParents and community activists around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students' failure to master basic skills, even as standardized testing is widely employed in efforts to improve the educational system. Contradictions of Reform is a provocative look into the reality, for students as well as teachers, of standardized testing. A detailed account of how student improvement and teacher effectiveness are evaluated, Contradictions of Reform argues compellingly that the preparation of students for standardized tests engenders teaching methods that vastly compromise the quality of education.
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-07-31
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 0743203267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this authoritative history of American education reforms in this century, a distinguished scholar makes a compelling case that our schools fail when they consistently ignore their central purpose--teaching knowledge.
Author: Eric Rofes
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0791484327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book opens up a critical conversation among progressive educators of various generations, races, perspectives, and social locations concerning one specific school reform initiative—charter schools. Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg bring together scholars who both study and actively participate in school choice reform and charge them to be "bold in their questioning and assertive in their own ambivalence" about this complex, controversial public issue and to include issues that are underexamined in the school literature, such as the impact of school choice on race and class politics and inequalities. The editors argue that charter schools are playing a powerful role in reviving participation in public education, expanding opportunities for progressive methods in public school classrooms, and generating new energy for community-based, community-controlled school initiatives. The result is a groundbreaking volume that pushes boundaries, questions assumptions, and rocks foundations of progressive thought.
Author: David B. TYACK
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0674044525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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 educational reforms occurred in cycles, and if so, why? Why has it been so difficult to change the basic institutional patterns of schooling? What actually happened when reformers tried to reinvent schooling? Tyack and Cuban argue that the ahistorical nature of most current reform proposals magnifies defects and understates the difficulty of changing the system. Policy talk has alternated between lamentation and overconfidence. The authors suggest that reformers today need to focus on ways to help teachers improve instruction from the inside out instead of decreeing change by remote control, and that reformers must also keep in mind the democratic purposes that guide public education.
Author: Howard Fuller
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781626000445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the story of one man's life journey into the heart of the struggle to reform the US's schools. Howard Fuller has dedicated his life to helping poor and working class Black people gain access to the levers of power dictating their lives.
Author: Tara Dawson McGuinness
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0691207755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”—Barack Obama A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first century As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time—from pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approach—public interest technology—that has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve problems. Through inspiring stories about successful projects ranging from a texting service for teenagers in crisis to a streamlined foster care system, the authors show how public interest technology can make the delivery of services to the public more effective and efficient. At its heart, public interest technology means putting users at the center of the policymaking process, using data and metrics in a smart way, and running small experiments and pilot programs before scaling up. And while this approach may well involve the innovative use of digital technology, technology alone is no panacea—and some of the best solutions may even be decidedly low-tech. Clear-eyed yet profoundly optimistic, Power to the Public presents a powerful blueprint for how government and nonprofits can help solve society’s most serious problems.
Author: Jeannie Oakes
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2006-04-24
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780807747025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn cities across the nation, low-income African-American and Latino parents hope their children's education will bring a better life. But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. This work offers a radical approach to school reform that stresses grassroots public activism.
