02745cam a2200397 a 4500 125706 BJBSDDR 20240108124458.0 ta 940715s1995 mdu b 000 0 eng 0801849217 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780801849213 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0801849209 (acid-free paper) 9780801849206 (acid-free paper) eng DLC eng LA 217.2 L438 1995 370 Learning from the past : what history teaches us about school reform / edited by Diane Ravitch and Maris A. Vinovskis. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xiv, 381 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Changes in Education Over TimeChapter 1. Assimilation, Adjustment, and Access: An Antiquarian View of American EducationChapter 2. Who's in Charge? Federal, State, and Local ControlChapter 3. Attitudes, Choices, and Behavior: School DeliveryPart II: Equity and MulticulturalismChapter 4. Changing Conceptions of Educational EquityChapter 5. Ethnic Diversity and National IdentityChapter 6. American History Reconsidered: Asking New Questions About the PastPart III: Recent Strategies For Reforming the SchoolsChapter 7. The Search for Order and the Rejection of Conformity: Standards in American EDucationChapter 8. Reinventing SchoolingChapter 9. The New Politics of ChoicePart IV: The Six National GoalsChapter 10. School Readiness and Early Childhood EducationChapter 11. School Leaving: Dead End or Detour?Chapter 12. Rhetoric and Reality: The High School CurriculumChapter 13. Literate America: High-Level Adult Literacy as a National GoalChapter 14. Reefer Madness and A Clockwork OrangeContributors This text examines major changes in US educational development and reform, considering how such changes have been implemented in the past and warning against exaggerating their benefits. Issues covered include governance, equity and multiculturalism, curriculum standards and school choice. Educational change United States. Cambio educacional Estados Unidos 1676 Cambio educativo Estados Unidos 16371 Education United States History. Educación Historia Estados Unidos 2427 Education Aims and objectives United States. Educación Fines y objetivos Estados Unidos 792 Ravitch, Diane (Diane Silvers), 1938- 5338 editor Vinovskis, Maris A., 1943- 33636 editor lcc BK lmm 67986 67986 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 LA 217.2 L438 1995 00000120099 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK