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

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...

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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, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.)
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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