Tinkering toward Utopia : : A Century of Public School Reform / / David B. Tyack, Larry Cuban.
For 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 Ameri...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: Learning from the Past
- 1. Progress or Regress?
- 2. Policy Cycles and Institutional Trends
- 3. How Schools Change Reforms
- 4. Why the Grammar of Schooling Persists
- 5. Reinventing Schooling
- Epilogue: Looking toward the Future
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index