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Table of Contents:
List of Photographs and Photographic Essays Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Taking Reform Seriously: The Anger and the Tears The Anti-reform Social Environment the Anti-reform Educational Environment 2. Judging the Worth of Reform: A Deweyan-Progressive Perspective Two Basic Concepts Used in This Analysis The Intellectual and Democratic Criterion The Technological Criterion Three Decades of Reform Representative Reforms 1950-1990 Overview of Reform in the 1950s 3. Reform's Green Fields The New Mathematics and the New Science The Trump High School The Open Classroom Nongraded Schools and Team Teaching The Coalition of Essential Schools The Paideia Proposal: A Summary A National Prepared: A Summary Concluding Comment on Reform's Green Fields 4. Reforms As Technology: How Technique Displaces Thought The Promise and the Failure of Federally Funded Remedial Programs in Reading and Arithmetic Concluding Comment on Remedial Programs Mastery Learning Chicago Style Concluding Comment on Mastery Learning A Critical Review of the Research Scientific Blues: M. Hunger's Teaching Model and the Research on Effective Teaching What it All Means Concluding Comment on the Hunger Model and the Research on Effective Teaching Technological Curriculums: Moving Backward into the Future 5. How Teachers' and Principals' Ideas Defined the Quality of a Major Reform The Real Stuff? Individually Guided Education in Adopting Schools Individually Guided Education in Three Traditional Schools: What Does it Mean? Individually Guided Education in a Progressive School Hoes Does IGE Influence a Progressive School? Flowing Brook: A School without Laughter How Good is Individually Guided Education as a Reform? 6. Like a Tree Planted by Water Rain in Sunny California: Five Inferences about Reform What to Do about Reform Gridlock The Structure of the Dialogue The Dialogue's Dynamic Qualities: Gladwyne Elementary School The Doxology Appendixes A. Toward a More Thoughtful School: Twenty-one Deweyan Criteria B. General Comment "In this Land of Dolts... " Competency-Based Education Individually Prescribed Instruction in  Reading and Arithmetic Thinking Skills: CoRT and Instrument Enrichment C. General Comment Performance Contracting: The Psychological-Industrial Complex The Enfeebled Research-Development-Diffusion Model The Effective Schools Research Assertive Discipline Accountability and State Testing Programs Aligning the Curriculum to the Test Notes Selected Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791420102
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 445 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791420108
  • Publisher Date: 22 Jul 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Story of Practical School Reform, 1960-1990
  • Width: 152 mm


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