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Troublemaker : A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik /

Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a h...

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Autor principal: Finn, Chester E., Jr., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a INTRODUCTION; Part I: -- Early Days; Part II: -- The Seventies; Part III: -- The Eighties; Part IV: -- The Nineties; Part V: -- Today and Tomorrow; EPILOGUE -- Two Little Girls; GLOSSARY; NOTES; INDEX. 
505 0 |a Early days -- Schoolkid in the fifties -- Into the sixties -- Becoming an educator -- The seventies -- White house days -- Out of Washington -- The politics of aiding private schools -- A Federal Department of Education? -- Becoming a Republican -- The eighties -- Quality gains traction -- Educators awaken -- Professing in Tennessee -- Inside the beast -- The quest for better information -- Goals, standards, and markets -- The Nineties -- Bipartisan reform in action-and inaction -- Charters and vouchers -- International alarums, contentious responses -- Whittling and think-tanking -- Clinton, goals, and testing -- Priests, professionals, and politicians -- Choices and summits -- Back to Dayton -- Leaving no child behind -- Shaky tripods -- The burden of choice -- Technology and governance -- Teachers, time, and money -- Still learning. 
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