Info
Old school still matters : lessons from history to reform public education in America / / Brian L. Fife
| Old school still matters : lessons from history to reform public education in America / / Brian L. Fife |
| Autore | Fife Brian L |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Barbara, California : , : Praeger, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Disciplina | 371.010973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Public schools - United States - History
Education - United States - History Educational change - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-313-39809-7
0-313-39810-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Horace Mann and the Common School Ideology; The Idea of Public Education for All; The Importance of Theory and History in Education Reform; Public versus Private Institutions; The Common School Ideology of the 1830s and 1840s; Horace Mann's Common School Ideology in the Contemporary World and Beyond; 2 The Market-Based Ideology and Politics of the Conservative Right; Twentieth-Century Conservative Philosophers; The Impact of Conservatism on American Politics since 1980; Policy Implications of the Market-Based Ideology and Conservative Political Philosophy
3 Education and the Politics of FederalismThe Abstract Nature of the Federalism Debate; The Evolution of Federalism in the United States; The Whig Party of the Nineteenth Century; National Intervention in K-12 Public Education; The Serious and Somber Policy Implications of NCLB; 4 Education and the Politics of Consumerism and Conservatism; The McGuffey Readers of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Consumerism Defined; The Evolution of the Consumer Ideology; The Commercialization of Public Education; A Century-Old Illusion; 5 Education in the Early Twenty-First Century K-12 Public School DesegregationSchool Choice in the Contemporary World; Revisiting the School Choice Debate; 6 Citizenship in a Republican Form of Government in the Twenty-First Century; The Omnipresent Reality of Systems Theory; The Role of the Citizen in a Republic; Political Participation in a Republic; The More Proactive Citizen in the American Republic; 7 Education: A Public Good Worth Defending; The Need for a Fearless Advocate of Public Education; Revisiting the Individualist Creed in the United States; What Is a Public Good?; 8 Blueprint for Progressive Reform Reform Premise A: Maintain Horace Mann's Common School IdealReform Premise B: Maintain and Expand Civic Education in the Public Schools; Reform Premise C: Repeal NCLB in Its Entirety and Deemphasize High-Stakes Standardized Testing; Reform Premise D: Reduce Poverty in America; Reform Premise E: Citizens Must Become More Engaged in the Electoral Process; Reform Premise F: Embrace the Communitarian Philosophy; Reform Premise G: Revisit Federal Budgetary Priorities; Reform Premise H: Rethinking the Status Quo with Regard to the School Year and the School Day Reform Premise I: Minimize the Influence of Business in Public EducationReform Premise J: Students, Parents, and Caregivers Are Part of the Solution; A Concluding Comment; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453260503321 |
Fife Brian L
|
||
| Santa Barbara, California : , : Praeger, , [2013] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Schooled to order [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of public schooling in the United States / / David Nasaw
| Schooled to order [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of public schooling in the United States / / David Nasaw |
| Autore | Nasaw David |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1979 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (0 p.) |
| Disciplina | 371/.01/0973 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Public schools - United States - History
Educational sociology - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-755995-6
1-4237-2911-0 1-280-43912-2 0-19-802023-6 1-60129-572-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449724103321 |
|
Nasaw David
|
||
| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1979 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Schooled to order : a social history of public schooling in the United States / / David Nasaw
| Schooled to order : a social history of public schooling in the United States / / David Nasaw |
| Autore | Nasaw David |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1979 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 pages) |
| Disciplina | 371/.01/0973 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Public schools - United States - History
Educational sociology - United States - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-755995-6
1-4237-2911-0 1-280-43912-2 0-19-802023-6 1-60129-572-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction; I: The Common Schools 1835-1855; 1 The New World and the Old; 2 The Ultimate Reform: The Common Schools; 3 The Campaign for the Common Schools: The Enthusiasts, the Indifferent, and the Opposition; 4 The Irish and the Common Schools; 5 The Legacy of Reformthe Ideology and the Institution; II: The High Schools 1895-1915; 6 The "Youth" Problem; 7 The War Against the Wards; 8 Reforming the High Schools; 9 New Studies for New Students; 10 Reaction, Resistance, and the Final Compromise; III: Higher Education 1945-1970; 11 Between the World Wars: To School or to Work? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783371803321 |
|
Nasaw David
|
||
| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1979 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
