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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.