Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning Contributor(s): Peterson, Paul E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674062159 ISBN-13: 9780674062153 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
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BISAC Categories: - Education | History - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Political Science | Public Policy - General |
Dewey: 370.973 |
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.57" W x 8.29" (0.67 lbs) 336 pages |
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Publisher Description: Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today's flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant American schools has shifted away from families and communities to larger, more centralized entities--initially to bigger districts and eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal government. Peterson's tales help to explain how nation building, progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization, legalization, special education, bilingual teaching, accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in a different way, set the stage for a new era in American education. Now, under the impact of rising cost, coupled with the possibilities unleashed by technological innovation, schooling may be transformed through virtual learning. The result could be a personalized, customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children's education than at any time since our nation was founded. |
Contributor Bio(s): Peterson, Paul E.: - Paul E. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University. |