Book
Saving schools : from Horace Mann to virtual learning / Paul E. Peterson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780674050112 (alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 0674050118 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: viii, 320 p. : ill., port., charts ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The rise. Heroes and history ; Horace Mann and the nation builders ; John Dewey and the Progressives ; Martin Luther King, Jr., and school desegregation -- The decline. The rights movement diversifies ; Albert Shanker and collective bargaining ; Money and the adequacy lawsuit ; William Bennett and the demand for accountability -- Signs of resurrection. James S. Coleman and choice theory ; The practice of choice ; Julie Young and the promise of technology. |
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| Subject: | Education > United States > Philosophy. Education > United States > History. Educators > United States > History. Educational change > United States > History. |
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