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| Prologue: Learning from the Past | 1 | |
| 1 | Progress or Regress? | 12 |
| 2 | Policy Cycles and Institutional Trends | 40 |
| 3 | How Schools Change Reforms | 60 |
| 4 | Why the Grammar of Schooling Persists | 85 |
| 5 | Reinventing Schooling | 110 |
| Epilogue: Looking toward the Future | 134 | |
| Notes | 145 | |
| Acknowledgments | 177 | |
| Index | 179 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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David Worthington
reviewed Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform on October 12, 2008 Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform
10-4-10 Reread most of book. This was written in 1995, but the parallels to today's education debate about merit pay, technology, standards, etc. are incredible. I still recommend that my friends find this at the library and read the prologue, chapters 1 & 5, and the epilogue. It's kind of wordy, but gives insightful perspective on the supposedly new education "reforms" in the media.
Initial comment: Wow! If only everyone--individuals in education and everyone else--could just read the introduction and 1st chapter of this book, the debate about education and our "broken" system would be exponentially more intelligent.
I am reading my professor's copy of this right now. I am going to buy this for myself and I am seriously going to buy a copy and give it to my state house representative. There's no hope for my state senator or my national senators and representative, so I won't bother.
Finished: Fabulous, important book! The middle 3 chapters are very interesting, as well as instructive on how schools and many of the ideas for "reform" actually started, but the history may a little bit too much to dig through if you're not totally interested in the topic. If you're willing to read about 75 pgs. with a lot of relevance to educational debates today, check this out from the library and read the intro, Chapters 1 and 5, and the epilogue. I am seriously giving this to my rep. after the election in a couple of weeks.
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