The struggle for public education : ten themes in American educational history / Donald Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkerson, Donald Hugh, author.

Parkerson, Jo Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public schools--United States--History.

Public schools.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Summary:

The great pendulum of educational reform has recently begun its inexorable swing toward a new understanding of education. The thirty-year dominance of the authoritarian approach, complete with standardized assessments, distended bureaucracies, and school consolidation based on the business model, appears to be over. Capped by the recent departure of the No Child Left Behind Act and replaced with a new congressional authorization-the Every Child Achieves Act-we are witnessing a distinct move toward a more democratic model of education. This book places the tension between these two broadly defined archetypes in the context of the central themes of American education. These include the structure and organization of American schools, the struggle for diversity, curriculum and instruction, classroom discipline, moral education, testing and assessment, and the rights and responsibilities of teachers and students. By organizing these themes into a more understandable and relevant thematic context, readers will be able to appreciate the changes in the field of education over the years as well as the cacophonous bickering over education policy-today and yesterday. Book jacket.

Contents:

The authoritarian and democratic schools of education

The structure and organization of American schools

Consolidation and its discontents : from intimacy to democracy

The struggle for diversity

The curriculum : from religious to secular and comprehensive

Instruction : from memorization to comprehension

Discipline in the classroom : from corporal punishment to preventative techniques

Moral education : from virtue centered to cognitive moral development

Testing and assessment : from recitation to standardized assessment

Rights and responsibilities of teachers and students.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Parkerson, Donald Hugh. Struggle for public education.

ISBN:

9781475830200

1475830203

9781475830194

147583019X

OCLC:

979767558