Old School Still Matters : Lessons from History to Reform Public Education in America.

Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fife, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Temas:
Public schools > United States > History.
Education > United States > History.
Educational change > United States > History.
Écoles publiques > États-Unis > Histoire.
Enseignement > Réforme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Education
Educational change
Public schools
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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 Federalism
  • The 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 Desegregation
  • School 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 Ideal
  • Reform 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 Education
  • Reform Premise J: Students, Parents, and Caregivers Are Part of the Solution
  • A Concluding Comment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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