Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tyack, David B. Tinkering toward utopia. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)636335770 |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David B Tyack; Larry Cuban |
| ISBN: | 0674892828 9780674892828 0674892836 9780674892835 |
| OCLC Number: | 31783052 |
| Description: | 184 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: Learning from the Past -- 1. Progress or Regress? -- 2. Policy Cycles and Institutional Trends -- 3. How Schools Change Reforms -- 4. Why the Grammar of Schooling Persists -- 5. Reinventing Schooling -- Epilogue: Looking toward the Future. |
| Responsibility: | David Tyack & Larry Cuban. |
Abstract:
In this book, David Tyack and Larry Cuban explore some basic questions about the nature of educational reform. Why have Americans come to believe that schooling has regressed? Have educational reforms occurred in cycles, and if so, why? Why has it been so difficult to change the basic institutional patterns of schooling? What actually happened when reformers tried to "reinvent" schooling? Tyack and Cuban argue that the ahistorical nature of most current reform proposals magnifies defects and understates the difficulty of changing the system. Policy talk has alternated between lamentation and overconfidence. The authors suggest that reformers today need to focus on ways to help teachers improve instruction from the inside out instead of decreeing change by remote control, and that reformers must also keep in mind the democratic purposes that guide public education.
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "Tinkering toward utopia : a century of public school reform".
Be the first.
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(14)
- Educational change -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Educational change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Education and state -- United States.
- Education -- Political aspects -- United States.
- Education -- History
- United States
- Maatschappijverbetering.
- Onderwijs.
- Enseignement -- Réforme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Enseignement -- Réforme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Éducation -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
- Éducation -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis.
- Éducation -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis.
User lists with this item (8)
- Populists, Progressives & Reformers(23 items)
by smcfadde@indiana.edu updated 2011-01-18
- Things to Check Out(17 items)
by skullmama updated 2010-12-04
- Education(23 items)
by School2010 updated 2010-11-09
- Things to Check Out(7 items)
by njudy4 updated 2010-08-26
- TimCauller(4 items)
by jj04@lehigh.edu updated 2010-05-19
