The same thing over and over : how school reformers get stuck in yesterday's ideas / Frederick M. Hess

Author: Hess, Frederick M.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages)

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Contents

Ideas equal to our ambitions -- The American education tradition -- The long view -- The common schoolers and the push for uniformity -- The progressives and the quest for universality -- Teachers and teaching -- Some reassembly required -- Finding a new path.

Subject(s)

School improvement programs—United States
Educational change—United States
Public schools—United States
Education—Aims and objectives—United States
Education—United States—Evaluation
Enseignement—Réforme—États-Unis
Écoles publiques—États-Unis
EDUCATION—Administration—General
EDUCATION—Organizations & Institutions
EDUCATION—Educational Policy & Reform—General
Education—Aims and objectives
Education—Evaluation
Educational change
Public schools
School improvement programs
United States

ISBN

9780674058859 (electronic bk.)
0674058852 (electronic bk.)
9780674055827
0674055829

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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