The Same Thing Over and Over : : How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas / / Frederick M. Hess.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hess, Frederick M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)

Hess argues that in the current disputes over education reform, virtually all vocal parties-- from teachers' unions and ed schools on the left, to the charter school or testing enthusiasts on the right-- accept without questioning the features and structures of schools that were established in the late 19th century. Under this approach, the long-standing assumption is that all schools need to be standardized in their curricula, that all students enroll in uniform schools, and that all schools be organized on the one-teacher-per-age-defined classroom. Provocatively, Hess states that these Left-Right disputes are standing in the way of actual progress and that everything from pedagogical techniques, curricular variability, and the structure of the teaching profession needs to be rethought given 21st century economic realities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ideas Equal to Our Ambitions -- 2. The American Education Tradition -- 3. The Long View -- 4. The Common Schoolers and the Push for Uniformity -- 5. The Progressives and the Quest for Universality -- 6. Teachers and Teaching -- 7. Some Reassembly Required -- 8. Finding a New Path -- Epilogue: A Few Thoughts on Making This Work -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index