{"product_id":"learning-from-the-past-9780801849213","title":"Learning from the Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text examines major changes in US educational development and reform, considering how such changes have been implemented in the past and warning against exaggerating their benefits. Issues covered include governance, equity and multiculturalism, curriculum standards and school choice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Changes in Education Over Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Assimilation, Adjustment, and Access: An Antiquarian View of American Education\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Who's in Charge? Federal, State, and Local Control\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Attitudes, Choices, and Behavior: School Delivery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Equity and Multiculturalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Changing Conceptions of Educational Equity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Ethnic Diversity and National Identity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. American History Reconsidered: Asking New Questions About the Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Recent Strategies For Reforming the Schools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Search for Order and the Rejection of Conformity: Standards in American EDucation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Reinventing Schooling\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The New Politics of Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Six National Goals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. School Readiness and Early Childhood Education\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. School Leaving: Dead End or Detour?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Rhetoric and Reality: The High School Curriculum\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Literate America: High-Level Adult Literacy as a National Goal\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. \u003ci\u003eReefer Madness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405186572631,"sku":"9780801849213","price":24.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801849213.jpg?v=1730489033","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/learning-from-the-past-9780801849213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}