Left back : a century of failed school reforms

The Resource Left back : a century of failed school reforms

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Left back : a century of failed school reforms

Title remainder

a century of failed school reforms

Statement of responsibility

Diane Ravitch

Language

eng

Summary

"Left Back recounts grandiose efforts by education reformers to use the schools to promote social and political goals, even when they diminished the schools' ability to educate children. It shows how generations of reformers have engaged in social engineering, advocating such innovations as industrial education, intelligence testing, curricular differentiation, and life-adjustment education. These reformers, she demonstrates, simultaneously mounted vigorous campaigns against academic studies." "In describing the wars between competing traditions of education, Ravitch points the way to reviving American education. She argues that all students have the capacity to learn and that all are equally deserving of a solid liberal arts education. Left Back addresses issues of the utmost importance and urgency. It is a large work of history that by recovering the past illuminates a future."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

370/.973

Index

index present

LC call number

LA216

LC item number

.R28 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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