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The allure of order : high hopes, dashed expectations, and the troubled quest to remake American schooling / Jal Mehta
(Studies in postwar American political development / Steven Teles, series editor)

資料タイプ 図書
出版者 Oxford : Oxford University Press
出版年 c2013
本文言語 英語
大きさ viii, 396 p. ; 24cm

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一般注記 Summary: "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. Each of these mov
Summary: "In The Allure of Order, Jal 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. Each of these movements started with high hopes and ambitious promises, but each gradually discovered that schooling is not easy to "order" from afar: policymakers are too far from schools to know what they need; teachers are resistant to top-down mandates; and the practice of good teaching is too complex for simple external standardization. The larger problem is that reformers have it backwards: they are trying to do on the back-end, through external accountability, what they should have done on the front-end: build
著者標目 *Mehta, Jal
件　名 LCSH:Public schools -- United States  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Educational change -- United States  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Education and state -- United States  全ての件名で検索
FREE:EDUCATION / General bisacsh
FREE:EDUCATION / Administration / General bisacsh
FREE:EDUCATION / Higher bisacsh
分　類 LCC:LA217.2
DC23:371.010973
書誌ID BB16221507
ISBN 9780199942060
NCID BB12894086

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