The allure of order high hopes, dashed expectations, and the troubled quest to remake American schooling
"Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush agreed on little, but united behind the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Passed in late 2001, it was hailed as a dramatic new departure in school reform. It would make the states set high standards, measure student progress, and hold failing schools accountable....
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in postwar American political development
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush agreed on little, but united behind the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Passed in late 2001, it was hailed as a dramatic new departure in school reform. It would make the states set high standards, measure student progress, and hold failing schools accountable. A decade later, NCLB has been repudiated on both sides of the aisle. According to Jal Mehta, we should have seen it coming. Far from new, it was the same approach to school reform that Americans have tried before. In The Allure of Order, Mehta recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal. Not once, not twice, but three separate times-in the Progressive Era, the 1960s and '70s, and NCLB-reformers have hit upon the same idea for remaking schools. Over and over again, outsiders have been fascinated by the promise of scientific management and have attempted to apply principles of rational administration from above. |
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| Beschreibung: | Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter One: The Allure of Order: Rationalizing Schools From the Progressive to the Present -- Chapter Two: The Cultural Struggle for Control Over Schooling: The Power of Ideas and the Weakness of the Educational Field -- Chapter Three: Taking Control from Above: The Rationalization of Schooling in the Progressive Era -- Chapter Four: The Forgotten Standards Movement: The Coleman Report, the Defense Department, and a Nascent Push for Educational Accountability -- Chapter Five: Setting the Problem: The Deep Roots and Long Shadows of A Nation at Risk -- Chapter Six: A Semi-Profession in an Era of Accountability -- Chapter Seven: E Pluribus Unum: How Standards and Accountability Became King -- Chapter Eight: Transforming Federal Policy: Ideas and the Triumph of Accountability Politics -- Chapter Nine: Rationalizing Schools: Patterns, Ironies, Contradictions -- Chapter Ten: Beyond Rationalization: Inverting the Pyramid, Remaking the Educational Sector -- Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-376) and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 396 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780199942060 978-0-19-994206-0 0199942064 0-19-994206-4 |