Saving schools : from Horace Mann to virtual learning / Paul E. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Paul E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States--Philosophy.

Education.

Education--United States--History.

Educators--United States--History.

Educators.

Educational change--United States--History.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today's flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant American schools has shifted away from families and communities to larger, more centralized entities-initially to bigger districts and eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal government.Peterson's tales help to explain how nation building, progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization, legalization, special education, bilingual teaching, accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in a different way, set the stage for a new era in American education.Now, under the impact of rising cost, coupled with the possibilities unleashed by technological innovation, schooling may be transformed through virtual learning. The result could be a personalized, customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children's education than at any time since our nation was founded.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Rise

1. Heroes and History

2. Horace Mann and the Nation Builders

3. John Dewey and the Progressives

4. Martin Luther King Jr. and School Desegregation

Part Two: The Decline

5. The Rights Movement Diversifies

6. Albert Shanker and Collective Bargaining

7. Money and the Adequacy Lawsuit

8. William Bennett and the Demand for Accountability

Part Three. Signs of Resurrection

9. James S. Coleman and Choice Theory

10. The Practice of Choice

11. Julie Young and the Promise of Technology

Abbreviations

Appendix: Figures

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and index.

ISBN:

9780674504547

0674504542

9780674056763

0674056760

OCLC:

671648560