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A nation reformed? : American education 20 years after A nation at risk / edited by David T. Gordon ; foreword by Patricia Albjerg Graham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--United States.
- Education.
- United States.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Education--United States--Evaluation.
- Evaluation.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 227 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Riding waves, trading horses: the twenty-year effort to reform education / Susan H. Fuhrman
- Change and improvement in educational reform / Richard F. Elmore
- The academic imperative: new challenges and expectations facing school leaders / Timothy Knowles
- A principal looks back: standards matter / Kim Marshall
- Teaching: from A nation at risk to a profession at risk? / Pam Grossman
- Still at risk: the causes and costs of failure to educate poor and minority children for the twenty-first century / Jeff Howard
- The limits of ideology: curriculum and culture wars / David T. Gordon
- Missed opportunities: why the federal response to A nation at risk was inadequate / Maris A. Vinovskis
- The emerging state leadership role in education reform: notes of a participant observer / Robert B. Schwartz
- The American way of school reform / Nathan Glazer
- A nation at risk / National Commission on Excellence in Education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1891792083
- OCLC:
- 51570405
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